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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith spent his childhood in Lissoy, a location near Kilkenny West in County Westmeath, Ireland, where his family moved around the time of his birth.1