John O'Leary

George Sigerson , DS 's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland ...

An important friend and mentor to her in her Irish opinions was John O'Leary , who also provided her introduction to Yeats. She was a friend, too, of his sister Ellen O'Leary , of...

Among those who frequented KT 's salon were George Russell (Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary , Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde (founder of the Gaelic League , 1893), and George Sigerson

Irish critic and nationalist John O'Leary played a particularly significant role in DS 's development as a poet; he helped teach her about poetics, to compensate for her lack of formal training. He gave her...

DS 's early exposure to Irish nationalism, Celtic literary revivalism, and political liberalism led her to become involved in Celtic nationalist societies, and made her a member of the Irish Literary Revival or Renaissance, which...

The Death Spancel in An Isle in the Water involves the supernatural, to which KT would later return in her novels. The Exile's Sister in The Land of Mist and Mountain (who may be Ellen O'Leary

KT , W. B. Yeats , and John O'Leary compiled and edited a volume of Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland.

This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell 's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father ...

The poems and ballads in Love of Ireland celebrate Ireland and its culture, and express, sometimes despairingly, DS 's Irish nationalism and her longing for a return to Ireland's golden past. The speaker in...