Michael Joseph Barry

Michael Joseph Barry (1817 – 23 January 1889) was an Irish poet, author, and political figure.

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• But whether on the scaffold high
  Or in the battle's van,
  The fittest place where man can die
  Is where he dies for man!
  • The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).