Michael Whelan (poet)



Michael Whelan (1858-1937) was a Canadian poet known as "the Poet of Renous".

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He was born in 1858 in Renous, New Brunswick, on the Southwest Miramichi River. He worked as a school teacher, and as a book-keeper for a local mill. He is best known for his poetry celebrating the Miramichi land and folklore, including the famous Dungarvon Whooper. He died at Chatham (now Miramichi), New Brunswick, in 1937.

Publications

 * Poems and Songs. Newcastle, NB: The Union Advocate, 1895.
 * Queen of the North and Forty other songs and sonnets. Newcastle, NB: The Union Advocate, 1914.
 * The Pioneers and other poems. Newcastle, NB: The Union Advocate, 1917.
 * Songs of the World War. N.p.: n.p., 1919.
 * The Great Miramichi Fire - 1825, The Polar Heroes, and Fourteen other poems. Chatham, NB: The Gazette Office, 1921. (NBM, OML, UNB, LL)
 * The Call of Christ and other poems. Chatham: The Gazette Office, 1922.
 * “In Memoriam”: Men and Women of Miramichi, N.B. N.p.: n.p., 1923.
 * The Maid of Miramichi and other poems. Chatham, NB: The Gazette Press, 1924.
 * The Great Miramichi Fire of 1825 in Story and Song, with other poems. N.p.:n.p., 1925.
 * The Sacred Silence and other songs. Chatham: The Gazette Press, 1925.
 * The Garden of God and other poems. N.p.:n.p., 1926.
 * Canada: Queen of the North: The All Canadian Edition for the 60th Anniversary of Confederation. Chatham, NB: The Gazette Press, 1927.
 * The Dungarvon Whooper and Other Songs of the Miramichi. N.p.:n.p., 1928.
 * Some Heroes of History. N.p.:n.p., 1928.
 * Piracy, Prophesy, Politics and Poetry. Chatham, NB: The Gazette Press, 1929.
 * Slogans and other songs. N.p.:n.p., 1930.
 * The Book Beautiful. Chatham, NB: The Gazette Press, 1930.
 * Timely Topics. N.p.:n.p., May 1932. (UNB, LL). Rprint, N.p.:n.p., September 1932.
 * Posthumous
 * Michael Whelan: Folk Poet of Renous River (edited by Michael O. Nowlan). Fredericton: New Ireland Press, 1990.

 Bibliographical information courtesy St. Thomas University  .