Download or read book James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical written by Carol Baraniuk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Orr was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. Baraniuk looks at Orr's life and work, examining the changing social, political and theological context of his writing and reassessing his contribution to radical literature and culture during the Romantic era.