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    William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited...
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  • The Great McGonagall Scrapbook (1975) (with Jack Hobbs) William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (1976) (with Jack Hobbs) William McGonagall Meets George...
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    Dundee", Alvan Marlaw. Dundee, November 1904. "McGonagall Online – Bonnie Dundee in 1878". Mcgonagall-online.org.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2014. Drummond and...
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  • The Great McGonagall may refer to: William McGonagall, a Scottish poet often known by this name The Great McGonagall (film), a 1974 British comedy film...
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  • film is a humorous biography of the Scottish poet William McGonagall that includes several of McGonagall's poems, his appearing in the title role of Macbeth...
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  • McGonagle (also McGonigle, McGonagall, McGonigal, McGonegal, or McGonnigal) is a surname. The name and its variants derive from the Irish name Mac Congail...
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    Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history. The poem recounts...
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  • Norman (2010). "Chronology of William McGonagall's Poems and Songs". Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall. Edinburgh: Birlinn. pp. 289–299...
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    1847 – June 5, 1920) was an American poetaster. Like Scotland's William McGonagall, she is best known for writing notoriously bad poetry. Young Julia...
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    bad poet William McGonagall with 'Elvis' "because it’s just so wrong, the wrongest name I could think of to go with McGonagall". McGonagall first performed...
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    Highlanders paraded at Prince Leopold's funeral, a fact recorded by William McGonagall in his poem "The Death of Prince Leopold". Prince Leopold was an active...
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Service, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William McGonagall. John Cairney was born on 16 February 1930 in the Baillieston area...
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    Woods a great deal of money, and Struthers famous. The doggerel poet William McGonagall wrote a notoriously bad poem, "The Famous Tay Whale", shortly after...
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  • "The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem by William Topaz McGonagall about the Tay Whale, also known as the Monster, a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883...
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    ") in 1892. In reply, William McGonagall wrote "Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins" in 1898, which was an attack on what McGonagall saw as the disparaging...
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  • Spasmodic poets include George Gilfillan, the friend and inspiration of William McGonagall. Gilfillan worked for thirty years on his long poem Night, but he...
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  • celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms. Entries include William McGonagall, a notoriously bad poet, and Teruo Nakamura, a soldier of the Imperial...
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  • disaster The Tay Bridge Disaster, a poem written by Scottish poet William McGonagall Category:Bridges across the River Tay and List of crossings of the...
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  • characteristic of nursery rhymes and children's song. The Scottish poet William McGonagall (1825–1902) has become famous for his doggerel, which many remember...
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    commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster (1880), written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet. The critical response to his...
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    Retrieved 27 July 2021. McGonagall, William (1968). James L. Smith (ed.). Last Poetic Gems: Selected from the Works of William McGonagall. Dundee: David Winter...
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    Township Heritage Society. The disaster inspired a poem by Scottish poet William McGonagall entitled "The Sunderland Calamity". Barnsley Public Hall disaster...
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    Origins of William Ewart Gladstone's Nickname, 'The Grand Old Man'". Notes and Queries. 61 (1): 95–100. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjt270. McGonagall, William (1898)...
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    The London Gazette. 2 May 1879. p. 3178. McGonagall, William (1899). "The Hero of Rorkes Drift". McGonagall Online. David, Saul (2004), Zulu: The Heroism...
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  • poems by Walt Whitman List of poems by William Wordsworth List of works by Andrew Marvell List of William McGonagall poems List of poems by Samuel Menashe...
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  • Brian McCabe Marion McCready Matthew McDiarmid Elvis McGonagall William McGonagall William McIlvanney Alastair McIntosh Alexander McLachlan Robert McLellan...
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    several characters in The Great McGonagall (1974), by Spike Milligan and Joseph McGrath, based on the life of William McGonagall. He portrayed an Egyptologist...
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  • Barlinnie, he was commissioned to produce a memorial statue of poet William McGonagall. Various difficulties associated with the project meant that the work...
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    'poetry of the people' – that dates back to 1630. It was popularised by William McGonagall and later Ogden Nash. The record was recorded live on tape. The NME...
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    Queen Victoria in Joseph McGrath's comedic biographical film of the Scottish poet William McGonagall, The Great McGonagall, starring opposite Milligan...
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