Padraic Colum

At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum , his wife Mary Gunning Maguire (later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens

Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB 's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer. She deals trenchantly...

From the age of about ten JC , a solitary child, was writing poems constantly . . . in secret notebooks with cloth covers. As an undergraduate she published some of them in a...

While renting a country cottage formerly used by the poet Padraic Colum , Constance, Countess Markievicz, came across copies of The Peasant, and Sinn Féin (as well as earlier numbers of the last-named, titled...

She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...

They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...