Pádraig Colum was born in Longford Workhouse on 8 December 1881. His father Patrick who was master of the workhouse, went to the U.S.A. in 1887 and Pádraig was reared in North Longford where he became familiar with Granard, Colmcille, Bunlahy and Molly, place names which later occur in his literary output. In the final years of his life Colum stated 'I have always tried to us the speech of the people of Longford in my work', - the idiom he had learned at the poultry fairs in north Longford which he visited during his youth. The family moved to Dublin on Patrick<U+2019>s return and Pádraic attended school in Glasthule. His first job was as a clerk in the Irish Railway clearing House in Kildare Street. Soon he began writing and in 1904, received a scholarship from Thomas Hughes Kelly, the son of a wealthy American. Colum was to become acquainted with people such as Yeats and Lady Gregory and he also became a Gaelic Leaguer and militant nationalist, being involved in the Howth gun-running (1914). By then he had married Mary Maguire, a former fiancée of Thomas McDonagh (a leader of the 1916 rising). When the scholarship expired, Colum<U+2019>s aunt agreed to pay for the couple<U+2019>s trip to the U.S. They settled in New York and he began to contribute to the Sunday Tribune Newspaper. The Colums travelled extensively, living in Paris, Hawaii, Connecticut, Paris again, Nice and eventually returning to New York again. Both taught at Colombia University. Pádraig died in Enfield, Connecticut on 11 January 1972 and was buried in Dublin.

Lucht:

Longford Interest.Irish Interest.

Contents:

A Portrait.A Song of Freedom.The Waves of Breffny.The House of Love.The Devotee.The Twilight People.The Plougher.From East to West.A Nocturne.Love's Mendicant.The Call.The Sorrow of Love.The Revolt against Art.Apology.The Living Chalice.Remembrance.Dectera of the Dun.The Lonely.A Dream of Tir-nan-oge.Earth and the Infinite.Amergin.Dream and Shadow.The Shadows.The Virgin Mother.From the Peaks.The White Wave Following.The Prisoner of Love.Homeless.A Drover.Twilight.Autumn.The Grey Dusk.The Summons.The Bells.To Maeve.The Star of Knowledge.The House of the Apple Trees.The Army of the Voice.Grass of Parnassus.The Spirit of Song.

ISBN:

NONE (invalid)

Rangúchán Dewey:

821.08

I dteanga:

English

Réimse:

Poetry in English -- Anthologies -- IrishLongford -- AuthorsPoetry in English -- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972Longford -- Poetry in English -- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972Longford -- Author -- Colum, Pádraig

BRN:

997602

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