William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.

He was natural at Ballyshannon, Donegal, and was the boy of the manager of a local bank world health organization was of English descent. He found the post in the custom-house of his native town & held many similar posts within Irel& and England until 1870, after he experienced retired from either a service, and became sub-editor of ''Fraser's Magazine, which he edited from 1874 to 1879, in succession to James Froude. He experienced published the volume of Verse form around 1850, followed by Every day Songs, the volume containing numbers of charming lyrics, inside 1855. Allingham get on terms of close friendly relationship by owning DG Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of the Songs. His Letters to Allingham (1854-1870) were edited by Dr Birkbeck Hill in 1897. Lawrence Bloomfield inside Ireland, his virtually all challenging, though non his virtually all successful act, the narrative verse form illustrative of Irish social questions, appeared within 1864. He too edited A Ballad Book for the Golden Treasury series inside 1864.

Allingham married around 1874 Helen Paterson, known under her married name as a a stream-colour painter. He died at Hampstead.

Though working within an unpretentious shell, Allingham produced tremendously first-class lyrical & descriptive poetry, & a right of his pieces come thoroughly national in spirit & local colouring. His verse is clear, recently, & refined.

More works come Fifty Modern Poems (1865), Songs, Poems, & Ballads (1877), Evil May Day (1883), Blackberries (1884), Irish Songs and Verse form (1887), and Varieties around Prose (1893).

William Allingham: the Diary'' (1907), edited by Mrs Allingham & D Radford, contains numbers of interesting reminiscences of Tennyson, Carlyle and other renowned coeval.