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
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Byron
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.
Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1992.
passim
She deals trenchantly...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jeni Couzyn
From the age of about ten JC
, a solitary child, was writing poems constantly . . . in secret notebooks with cloth covers.
Couzyn, Jeni. Life by Drowning. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
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As an undergraduate she published some of them in a...
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
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...
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
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...
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
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...