Edward Harrington

Edward Phillip Harrington (28 September 1896 – 28 May 1966) was an Australian poet and short story writer, the last of the bush balladists.

Biography

Born in Colbinabbin, in central Victoria, Harrington was the fourth child of Philip Harrington, a farmer from Ireland, and his Australian wife, Margaret O'Brien. [ Australian Dictionary of Biography
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accessdate=2008-08-26 ] Edward Harrington served in Palestine with the Australian Light Horse during the First World War [ "Australian Writers and their Works", by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996] , and took part in the charge on Beersheba. [cite web
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accessdate=2008-08-26 ] He was discharged in 1919 with a repatriation pension, as he needed medical attention for the rest of his life. Harrington was a founding member of the "Australian Poetry Lovers' Society" (1934) and the "Bread and Cheese Club" (1938).He is generally referred to as the last of the Bush Balladists.

Works

*"Songs of War and Peace" (1920)
*"Boundary Bend and Other Ballads" (1936)
*"My Old Black Billy and Other Songs of the Australian Outback" (1940)
*"The Kerrigan Boys" (1944)
*"The Swagless Swaggie and Other Ballads" (1957)

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