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- Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms-such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier-or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". - Music Department
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Francesco Geminiani was born on 5 December 1687 in Lucca, Republic of Lucca [now Tuscany, Italy]. He is known for Jefferson in Paris (1995), Amreeka (2009) and La Folía (2017). He died on 17 September 1762 in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland [now Republic of Ireland].- Sheridan Le Fanu was born on 28 August 1814 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. Sheridan was a writer, known for Mystery and Imagination (1966), The Judge's House and Vampyr (1932). Sheridan was married to Susanna Bennett. Sheridan died on 7 February 1873 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
- Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on 28 July 1844 in Stratford, London, England, UK. Gerard was a writer, known for Camera Three (1955), The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955) and Spring: An Animation of the Hopkins Poem (2010). Gerard died on 8 June 1889 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
- Tom Casement was born on 3 January 1863 in France. He was an actor, known for Devil's Rock (1938). He died on 6 March 1939 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Cathal MacGarvey was born on 3 June 1866 in Rathmullan, County Donegal, Ireland. He was an actor and writer, known for Irish Destiny (1926) and Fun at a Finglas Fair (1916). He died on 15 November 1927 in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland.- Constance Markievicz was born on 4 February 1868 in 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico, London, England, UK. She was married to Casimir Dunin Markievicz. She died on 15 July 1927 in Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
- Erskine Childers was born on 25 June 1870 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Riddle of the Sands (1979) and Das Rätsel der Sandbank (1987). He was married to Mary Alden Osgood. He died on 24 November 1922 in Dublin, Irish Free State [now Dublin, Ireland].
- Vida Varrall was born on 15 August 1870 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Yiddle and His Fiddle (1912) and The Bliggs Family at the Zoo (1912). She was married to William Littlejohn. She died on 22 May 1919 in Dublin, Ireland.
- A follower of Parnell who became disillusioned with parliamentary politics after Parnell's death, Arthur Griffith went to South Africa, and returned to Ireland to found the radical political party Sinn Fein around 1903 or 1904. Rumoured to have beaten a right-wing French newspaper publisher with a horse whip over slights/affronts to Maud Gonne. Died at 50, apparently of stress-related ill health, in 1922 only 10 days before Michael Collins was killed, after seeing Sinn Fein's reach the pinnacle of political power in post World War I southern (Roman Catholic Nationalist) Ireland.
- John Millington Synge was born on 16 April 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a writer, known for The Playboy of the Western World (1962), Theatre Night (1957) and Theatre Night (1985). He died on 24 March 1909 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
- Nicholson Ormsby-Scott was born on 20 October 1871 in Collooney, County Sligo, Ireland. He was a producer, known for The Brass Bottle (1914). He died on 6 June 1956 in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland.
- Mrs. Percival Sykes was born on 11 December 1871 in Derry, County Londonderry, Ireland. She was an actress, known for A Child's Message to Heaven (1910). She was married to Percy Murray. She died on 24 November 1924 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Valentine Grace was born on 21 January 1877 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Aylwin (1920). He died on 3 May 1945 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany; 24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.
Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and traveled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.
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H. P. Lovecraft was greatly impressed by Dunsany after seeing him on a speaking tour of the United States, and Lovecraft's "Dream Cycle" stories, his dark pseudo-history of how the universe came to be, and his god Azathoth all clearly show Dunsany's influence. Lovecraft once wrote, "There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany' pieces-but alas-where are my Lovecraft pieces?"
Robert E. Howard included Dunsany in a list of his favorite poets in a 1932 letter to Lovecraft. Lovecraft also wrote a poem about Dunsany.
Clark Ashton Smith was familiar with Dunsany's work, and it had some influence on his own fantasy stories.
J. R. R. Tolkien, according to John D. Rateliff's report,[28] presented Clyde S. Kilby with a copy of The Book of Wonder as kind of a preparation to his auxiliary role in the compilation and development of The Silmarillion during the Sixties.[29] Tolkien's letters and divulged notes made allusions to two of the stories found in this volume, "Chu-Bu and Sheemish" and "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller."
Dale J. Nelson has argued in Tolkien Studies 01 that Tolkien may have been inspired by another of The Book of Wonder's tales, "The Hoard of the Gibbelins," while writing one of his poems, "The Mewlips," included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Guillermo Del Toro, the filmmaker, has cited Dunsany as an influence.
Neil Gaiman has expressed admiration for Dunsany and has written an introduction to a collection of his stories. Some commentators have posited links between The King of Elfland's Daughter and Gaiman's Stardust (book and film), a connection seemingly supported by a comment of Gaiman's quoted in The Neil Gaiman Reader.
Jorge Luis Borges included Dunsany's short story "The Idle City" in Antología DE la Literatura Fantástica (1940, revised 1976), a collection of short works Borges selected and provided forewords for. Borges also, in his essay "Kafka and His Precursors," included Dunsany's story "Carcassonne" as one of the texts that presaged, or paralleled, Kafka's themes.
Donald Wandrei, in a 7 February 1927 letter to H.P. Lovecraft, listed Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter among his collection of "weird books" that Wandrei had read.
Talbot Mundy greatly admired Dunsany's "plays and fantasy", according to Mundy biographer Brian Taves.
C. M. Kornbluth was an avid reader of Dunsany as a young man, and mentions Dunsany in his short fantasy story "Mr. Packer Goes to Hell" (1941).
Arthur C. Clarke enjoyed Dunsany's work and corresponded with him between 1944 and 1956. Those letters are collected in the book Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence. Clarke also edited and allowed the use of an early essay as an introduction to one volume of The Collected Jorkens and that essay acknowledges the link between Jorkens and Tales from the White Hart. Clarke states, humorously, that any reader who sees a link between the two works will *not* be hearing from his solicitors.
Manly Wade Wellman esteemed Dunsany's fiction.
Margaret St. Clair was an admirer of Dunsany's work, and her story "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951) is a sequel to Dunsany's "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles".
Evangeline Walton stated in an interview that Dunsany inspired her to write fantasy.
Jack Vance was a keen reader of Dunsany's work as a child.
Michael Moorcock often cites Dunsany as a strong influence.
Peter S. Beagle also cites Dunsany as an influence, and wrote an introduction for one of the recent reprint editions.
David Eddings once named Lord Dunsany as his personal favorite fantasy writer, and recommended aspiring authors to sample him.
Gene Wolfe used one of Dunsany's poems to open his bestselling 2004 work The Knight.
Fletcher Pratt's 1948 novel The Well of the Unicorn was written as a sequel to Dunsany's play King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior. Ursula K. Le Guin, in her essay on style in fantasy "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie", wryly referred to Lord Dunsany as the "First Terrible Fate that Awaiteth Unwary Beginners in Fantasy", alluding to the (at the time) very common practice of young writers attempting to write in Lord Dunsany's style.
M. J. Engh has acknowledged Lord Dunsany as an influence on her work.
Welleran Poltarnees, an author of numerous non-fantasy "blessing books" employing turn-of-the-century artwork, is a pen name based on two of Lord Dunsany's most famous stories.
Gary Myers's 1975 short story collection The House of the Worm is a double pastiche of Dunsany and Lovecraft.
Álvaro Cunqueiro openly admitted the influence of Lord Dunsany on his work. - Maurice Walsh, very popular Irish author in the 1930's. Worked some time as an excise officer in the Scottish Highlands consequently many of his books are set in Scotland but include many Irish characters. Many of his stories are set in Scotland and Ireland in that wonderful period between the two wars. Full of fun, fights, good humour, love and mystery.
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John MacDonagh was born on 4 October 1879 in Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Ireland. He was a director and writer, known for Cruiskeen Lawn (1922), Wicklow Gold (1922) and Paying the Rent (1920). He died on 1 July 1961 in Dublin, Ireland.- Patrick Pearse was born on 10 November 1879 in 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He died on 3 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland].
- William Cosgrave was born on 5 June 1880 in Dublin, Ireland. He was married to Louise Flanagan. He died on 16 November 1965 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Fred Jeffs was born on 14 July 1880 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Cruiskeen Lawn (1922), Casey's Millions (1922) and Wicklow Gold (1922). He died on 18 November 1930 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Eamon de Valera was born on 14 October 1882 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Sinead Flanagan. He died on 29 August 1975 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Eric Gorman was born on 24 November 1882 in Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Quiet Man (1952), Theatre 625 (1964) and Saints and Sinners (1949). He was married to Christine Hayden (actress). He died on 24 November 1971 in Dublin, Ireland.
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John McCormack was born on 14 June 1884 in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Miller's Crossing (1990), War Horse (2011) and Winchester (2018). He was married to Lily Foley. He died on 16 September 1945 in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland.- Valentine Vousden was born on 29 January 1885 in Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Irish Destiny (1926). He died on 6 June 1951 in Dublin, Ireland.
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At twenty-one, Irish playwright Lennox Robertson's long association with Dublin's Abbey Theatre began in 1907 shortly after the production of his first play, "The Clancy Name". In intervals over the next fifty years he would serve as the theatre's manager, director and producer. Robertson had also worked as a secretary to playwright George Bernard Shaw, general manager of the Irish National Theatre Society, organizing librarian for the Carnegie Trust in Ireland and as a government official.
Robertson made several trips to America with the Abbey Theatre Irish Players performing such plays of his as "The Far-Off Hills", "Crabbed Youth and Age", "The Big House", "Is Life Worth Living" and "Drama at Inish". His play "Ever the Twain" was actually set in New York and was considered by many as a wonderful satirical interpretation of the American lifestyle.
While in America Robertson gave lecture courses on the history and origins of Irish poetry at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Amherst College, the Universities of Montana, North Carolina, Michigan and Ohio State University,
Lennox Robertson is probably best remembered for his plays "The White-Headed Boy" and "The Lost Leader". At the time of his death he was working as co-editor of "The Oxford Book of Irish Verses".- Actor
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One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role that he recreated in his film debut for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. He was coaxed to the U.S. in 1935 by John Ford to appear in Ford's film adaptation of another O'Casey masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars (1936). Fitzgerald took up residence in Hollywood and went on to give outstanding performances in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), And Then There Were None (1945), Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and what is probably the role for which he is most fondly remembered, The Quiet Man (1952). He won the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gruff, aging Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way (1944). He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the same role and was the only actor to ever be so honored. Barry Fitzgerald died in his beloved Dublin in 1961.- Francis de Groot was born on 24 October 1888 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was married to Mary Elizabeth (Bessie) Byrne. He died on 1 April 1969 in Dublin, Ireland.
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After a brief civil service career in Dublin and London, during which he acted in amateur dramatic societies (as a civil servant, he couldn't perform in public under his own name, hence F.J. McCormick, a name he chose at random since he liked the sound of it), he became a member of the Abbey Theatre (now the National Theatre of Ireland) company in 1918. Over the next 30 years, he appeared in over 500 plays, being particularly celebrated for his performances of works by Sean O'Casey (he created the roles of Joxer in Juno and the Paycock and Fluther Good in The Plough and the Stars); he was considered the greatest and most versatile Irish actor of his generation. He appeared in only three films, despite many offers: this because of his great loyalty to the Abbey and to the young Irish state, and also because acting in John Ford's bowdlerised film version of The Plough and the Stars (1936) left him profoundly disaffected with the Hollywood system. He married his fellow Abbey actress Eileen Crowe in 1925.- Brinsley MacNamara was born on 6 September 1890 in Delvin, Ireland. Brinsley was a writer, known for The Glorious Uncertainty (1970). Brinsley was married to Ellen Degidon. Brinsley died on 4 February 1963 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Anew McMaster was born on 24 December 1891 in County Monaghan, Ireland. He was an actor. He was married to Marjorie Willmore. He died on 24 August 1962 in Dublin, Ireland.- Matthew Tobin was born on 26 April 1892 in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Willie Scouts While Jessie Pouts (1918). He died on 5 September 1932 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Robert Briscoe was born on 25 September 1894 in Lower Beechwood Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was married to Lillian Melanie Isaacs. He died on 11 March 1969 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Liam O'Flaherty was born on 28 April 1896 in Inishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Informer (1935), Le puritain (1938) and Uptight (1968). He died on 7 September 1984 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Kay McLaren was born on 28 December 1896 in Kilkenny, Ireland. She was an actress, known for Excalibur (1981). She died on 13 December 1980 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Edward Lexy was born on 18 February 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for South Riding (1938), The Terror (1938) and Family Affairs (1949). He died on 31 January 1970 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Emmet Dalton was born on 4 March 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a producer, known for Professor Tim (1957), Home Is the Hero (1959) and The Devil's Agent (1962). He was married to Alice Shannon. He died on 4 March 1978 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Eileen Crowe was born on 2 March 1899 in Dublin, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Quiet Man (1952), Top o' the Morning (1949) and The Plough and the Stars (1936). She was married to F.J. McCormick. She died on 8 May 1978 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Jimmy O'Dea was born on 26 April 1899 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Let's Be Famous (1939) and Blarney (1926). He died on 7 January 1965 in Dublin, Ireland.- Producer
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Chloe Gibson discovered Dirk Bogarde and cast him in "Power Without Glory", which she directed in 1947. The play opened at the Linden Theatre and then transferred to the Fortune Theatre in the west end of London. It was a huge success and Borgarde's film career stemmed from this production. Kenneth More and Dandy Nichols were also in the cast. Chloe went on to become the director general with RTE Irish Television, a post she held for 25 years. Among the television productions she directed were Micheál MacLiammóir's The Importance of Being Oscar, based on the life and works of Oscar Wilde and Jackie MacGowran's Beginning to End from the works of Beckett. She directed a number of plays at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and formed the New Dublin Shakespeare Company with the then owner of the Oscar Theatre, Chris O'Neill. This company toured extensively bringing Shakespeare and the classics to rural areas and schools throughout Ireland.- Newton Blick was born on 10 June 1899 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Barnaby Rudge (1960), Morgan! (1966) and The Avengers (1961). He died on 14 October 1965 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Micheál MacLiammóir was a theatrical giant who dominated Irish theatre for over 50 years. Actor, designer, playwright and brilliant raconteur he was very much his own creation. He cut an imposing figure under the spotlight and in real life dressed flamboyantly wearing full make-up at all times and a jet black hairpiece. When he died in 1978 aged 79 The Irish Times wrote, "Nobody can assess the contribution that Micheál MacLiammóir made to Irish theatre." Throughout his life MacLiammóir closely guarded the fact that he was not in fact Irish at all but had been born in London. As Alfred Willmore he had been a child actor on the London stage in the company of Noël Coward. He later travelled widely throughout Europe, studying arts and languages, before reaching Ireland where he met his future partner, the actor Hilton Edwards. In 1928 the two men started the world famous Gate Theatre in Dublin and among the early players were James Mason and Orson Welles, the latter employing him later to be Iago to Welles' cinematic Othello.
MacLiammóir appeared on Broadway in the 1930s and from the 1950s onwards toured the world in an acclaimed one man show 'The Importance of Being Oscar', based on the life of Oscar Wilde. He followed this in 1963 with 'I Must Be Talking to My Friends', a show about Irish writers, and lastly with 'Talking About Yeats', his final one man entertainment. On MacLiammóir's death Sir John Gielgud commented, "Designer, wit, linguist and boon companion as well as actor, he was a uniquely talented and delightful creature."- Sean O'Faoláin was born on 22 February 1900 in Cork, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Promise of Barty O'Brien (1951), First Night (1963) and The Sinners (1970). He was married to Eileen Gould. He died on 20 April 1991 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Tyrone Guthrie was born on 2 July 1900 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Beachcomber (1938), Oedipus Rex (1957) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to Judith Bretherton. He died on 15 May 1971 in Dublin, Ireland.- Vinnie Byrne was born on 23 November 1900 in Dublin, Ireland (now Republic of Ireland). He died on 13 December 1992 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Noel Purcell was born on 23 December 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Lust for Life (1956), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). He was married to Eileen Marmion. He died on 3 March 1985 in Dublin, Ireland.- Cecil King was born on 20 February 1901 in Poynter's Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was married to Ruth Railton and Agnes Margaret Cooke. He died on 17 April 1987 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Denis Johnston was born on 18 June 1901 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a producer and writer, known for Guests of the Nation (1935), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and River of Unrest (1936). He was married to Betty Chancellor and Shelah Richards. He died on 8 August 1984 in Dublin, Ireland.- Maisie MacFarquhar was born on 6 March 1902 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Macbeth (1971), Mystery and Imagination (1966) and The Forsyte Saga (1967). She died on 23 February 1979 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Hilton Edwards was born on 2 February 1903 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Return to Glennascaul (1952), Othello (1951) and Half a Sixpence (1967). He died on 18 November 1982 in Dublin, Ireland.- Ria Mooney was born on 30 April 1903 in Dublin, Ireland. She was an actress, known for This Other Eden (1959), Riders to the Sea (1937) and Wicklow Gold (1922). She died on 3 January 1973 in Dublin, Ireland.