biography
pronunciation:
[muhkdona]
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| lived:
| (1878–1916)
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| biography:
| Poet, critic, and nationalist, born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, SC Ireland. He helped P H Pearse to found St Enda's College, Dublin (1908), and published poems, original works, and translations from the Irish. In 1914 he founded the Irish Theatre with Joseph Plunkett and Edward Martyn (1859–1923). An outstanding critic of English literature, his works include Thomas Campion (1913) and Literature in Ireland (1916). He took part in the Irish Volunteers, was very belatedly drawn into preparations for the Easter Rising of 1916, commanded at Jacob's Factory in the fighting, and was executed. Yeats wrote his epitaph in ‘Easter 1916’. |
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