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It was Yeats who had encouraged him to go west in search of writing material among the Irish-speaking areas that were even then dwindling. As well as the Aran Islands, Synge spent valuable time in West Kerry – where the fictional Christy Mahon begins his odyssey – and in Mayo, where most of the Playboy’s action occurs. But by his own account, a crucial part of Synge’s education also happened in the east, among the Wicklow Mountains, where he set his early one-act play, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903). That too was based on a story heard from Dirane and yet when writing it...

'); Opinion: From aristocrats to revolutionaries - No 6 Harcourt Street was at the centre of Irish history Cuan Ó Seireadáin discusses 6 Harcourt Street, which is the subject of a TG4 documentary tonight. By Cuan Ó Seireadáin Wednesday 14 Apr 2021, 7:00 AM 1 hour ago 3,575 Views 1 Comment Cuan Ó Seireadáin HANS BLACKWOOD, BORN in Co. Down, the fourth son of Sir...

The faded brown autograph book has seen a lot of wear in the past century. Its pages are filled with signatures, snatches of poetry and inspiring slogans -- all written out, in florid cursive, by Irish prison inmates. The autograph book belonged to Sean McCarthy, a teenaged Irish revolutionary. Swept up by British arrests after the Easter Rising of 1916, young Sean found himself transported to Spike Island, a prison in Cork harbor, along with other members of the Irish Republican Army. The book passed to McCarthy's daughter, Joan Brillaud. Her husband, Andre Brillaud, is now working to preser...

Comments The poem that defined the era of the Easter Rising is "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats. Here, Irish Ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall explains in an essay who are the unlikely heroes Yeats is memorializing. Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916' is not a bad place to start when seeking an understanding of that transformative era for modern Ireland. Yeats, writing in the immediate aftermath of the Rising, spotted that Ireland had been 'changed utterly' by the events of Easter week. His description of the Rising as 'a terrible beauty' summed up his ambivalent attitude as did ...

Greener Pastures - a poem for St Patrick's Day Reporter: ');  '); Happy St Patrick's Day everyone! Here's a poem penned in honour of our patron saint.... Greener Pastures And the craic was something fierce Fionn MacCumhaill was there and Granuaile James Joyce and Patrick Pearse There were saints and scholars everywhere Sure the likes was never seen While God Himself, to honour the day Was decked out all in green With banners aloft the march set off Down Heaven’s Main Avenue Led by the hero of Clontarf The legendary Brian Ború He was obviously in pain Sure the man was never quite the same