Handy Andy Volume One (Esprios Classics)

Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 - 6 July 1868) also known as Ben Trovato (well invented) was an Irish songwriter composer novelist and a painter of portraits chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert. Lover produced a number of Irish songs of which several - including The Angel's Whisper Molly Bawn and The Four-leaved Shamrock - attained great popularity. He also wrote novels of which Rory O'Moore (in its first form a ballad) and Handy Andy are the best known and short Irish sketches which with his songs he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights or Irish Evenings. With the latter he toured North America during 1846-8. He joined with Charles Dickens in founding Bentley's Magazine.