Mangan, JAMES CLARENCE, a gifted but hapless Irish poet, who was born in 1803, and employed for many years in the drudgery of copying in an attorney's office. His heart was framed for suffering, and his whole life was a tragedy of hapless love, poverty, and intemperance, until he found rest in death at Meath Hospital, Dublin, 20th June 1849. There is fine quality in his original verse, as well as in his translations from the German, but more especially from the old Irish, as in the impassioned ballad of Dark Rosaleen.
His Poems were published at New York in 1859 and 1870, with a Life by John Mitchel; Miss Guiney, in her selections and study (1897), affirmed Poe's indebtedness to Mangan's recurrent refrains; the standard Life is D. J. O'Donoghue's (1898).