Editing Thomas Moore (section)

==Early life and artistic launch==
[[File:Thomas Moore Tavern, home of his mother.jpg|thumb|The Thomas Moore [[Tavern]], [[Wexford]], birthplace and home of Moore's mother Anastasia Codd. She lived here while [[pregnant]] with Thomas, and on 26 August 1836 Moore returned to the building and praised his mother as "one of the noblest-minded as well as most warm-hearted of all God's creatures."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2022/03/wexford-dublin-and-kerry-vie-for.html|title=Wexford, Dublin and Kerry vie for celebrating Thomas Moore's ancestry|first=Patrick|last=Comerford}}</ref>]]
Thomas Moore was born to Anastasia Codd from [[Wexford]] and John Moore from [[County Kerry]] over his parents' [[grocery shop]] in Aungier Street, [[Dublin]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wnet.org/ihas/composer/moore.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520112734/http://www.wnet.org/ihas/composer/moore.html|url-status=dead|title=I Hear America Singing|archivedate=20 May 2008}}</ref> He had two younger sisters, Kate and Ellen. Moore showed an early interest in music and performance, staging musical plays with his friends and entertaining hope of being an actor. In Dublin he attended Samuel Whyte's co-educational English grammar school,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Geohegan|first=Patrick|date=2009|title=Whyte, Samuel {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/whyte-samuel-a9027|access-date=1 February 2022|website=www.dib.ie}}</ref> where he was schooled in Latin and Greek and became fluent in French and Italian. By age fourteen he had had one of his poems published in a new literary magazine called the ''Anthologia Hibernica'' (“Irish Anthology”).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thomas Moore Critical Essays |url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/thomas-moore/critical-essays|access-date=11 April 2021|website=eNotes.com|language=en}}</ref>

Samuel Whyte had taught [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan|Richard Barnsley Sheridan]], Irish playwright and English [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig politician]], of whom Moore later was to write a biography.<ref name="Poetry Foundation">{{cite web |title=Thomas Moore |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-moore |website=poetryfoundation.org |publisher=Poetry Foundation |access-date=10 August 2020}}</ref>

===Trinity College and the United Irishmen===
In 1795, Moore was among the first Catholics admitted to [[Trinity College Dublin]], preparing, as his mother had hoped, for a career in law. Through the literary salon of the poet and satirist [[Henrietta Battier]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Linkin |first=Harriet Kramer |date=2014 |title=Mary Tighe, Thomas Moore, and the Publication of "Selena" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24541145 |journal=The Review of English Studies |volume=65 |issue=271 |pages=711–729 |doi=10.1093/res/hgt098 |jstor=24541145 |issn=0034-6551}}</ref> and his friends at Trinity, [[Robert Emmett]] and Edward Hudson, Moore was connected to the popular politics of the capital agitated by the [[French Revolution]] and by the prospect of a French invasion. With their encouragement, in 1797, Moore wrote an appeal to his fellow students to resist the proposal, then being canvassed by the English-appointed [[Dublin Castle administration]], to secure Ireland by incorporating [[Kingdom of Ireland|the kingdom]] in a union with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]. In April 1798, Moore was interrogated at Trinity but acquitted on the charge of being a party, through the [[Society of United Irishmen]], to sedition.<ref name="Kelly 2013">{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Ronan |date=22 February 2013 |title=Another side of Thomas Moore |url=https://www.historyireland.com/another-side-of-thomas-moore/ |access-date=31 July 2022 |website=History Ireland}}</ref>

Moore, though a friend of Emmett, had not taken the United Irish oath with Emmett and Hudson, and he played no part in the [[Irish rebellion of 1798|republican rebellion of 1798]] (Moore was at home, ill in bed),<ref name="Kelly 2013" /> or in [[Irish rebellion of 1803|the uprising in Dublin]] for which Emmett was executed in 1803.<ref name=":7">Anon., March 1853, "Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Moore" in ''Dublin Review'', vol. 34.</ref>{{rp|123}} Later, in a biography of the United Irish leader [[Lord Edward Fitzgerald]] (1831),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Thomas |title=The Life and Death of Edward Fitzgerald. Volume 1 |date=1831 |publisher=Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown & Green |location=London}}</ref> he made clear his sympathies, not hiding his regret that [[French expedition to Ireland (1796)|the French expedition]] under  [[Lazare Hoche|General Hoche]] failed in December 1796 to effect a landing.<ref name="Moore, Political and Historical Writings">{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Thomas |title=Political and Historical Writings on Irish and British Affairs by Thomas Moore, Introduced by Brendan Clifford |date=1993 |publisher=Athol Books |isbn=0-85034-067-5 |location=Belfast |pages=}}</ref>{{rp|132, 152-153}} To Emmett's sacrifice on the gallows Moore pays homage in the song  "O, Breathe Not His Name" (1808). 

===London society and first success===
[[File:Thomas Moore from NPG.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Moore as a young man]]In 1799, Moore continued his law studies at [[Middle Temple]] in [[London]]. The impecunious student was assisted by friends in the expatriate Irish community in London, including Barbara, widow of [[Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall]], the landlord and borough-owner of [[Belfast]].<ref name=":7" />{{rp|126}}

Moore's translations of [[Anacreon]], celebrating wine, women and song, were published in 1800 with a dedication to the [[Prince of Wales]]. His introduction to the future [[prince regent]] and [[George IV|King, George IV]] was a high point in Moore's ingratiation with aristocratic and literary circles in London, a success due in great degree to his talents as a singer and songwriter. In the same year he collaborated briefly as a librettist with [[Michael Kelly (tenor)|Michael Kelly]] in the comic opera, ''[[The Gypsy Prince]]'', staged at the [[Haymarket Theatre|Theatre Royal, Haymarket]],<ref>Eric Walter White: ''A Register of First Performances of English Operas'' (London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1983), {{ISBN|0-85430-036-8}}, p. 59.</ref>

In 1801, Moore hazarded a collection of his own verse: ''Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.''. The pseudonym may have been advised by their juvenile eroticism. Moore's celebration of kisses and embraces skirted contemporary standards of propriety. When these tightened in the [[Victorian era]], they were to put an end to what was a relative publishing success.<ref name="Poetry Foundation" /><ref name=":8">Brendan Clifford, Introduction to ''Political and Historical Writings on Irish and British Affairs by Thomas Moore'', {{ISBN|0-85034-067-5}}, Belfast: Athol Books..</ref>