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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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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.
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William J. Powers was a director and writer, known for Willie Scouts While Jessie Pouts (1918). William J. died on 20 June 1920 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.
- 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].
- 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.
- Ira Allen was born in 1879 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for In the Days of Saint Patrick (1920). He died on 2 July 1927 in 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.
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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.- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jimmy Wildman was an actor, known for Ireland's Border Line (1938). He died on 25 September 1939 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Mary Murnane was an actress, known for In the Days of Saint Patrick (1920). She died on 29 October 1940 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.
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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.- Actor
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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.- 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.
- Simon Eppel was born in 1892 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Irish Destiny (1926). He died on 19 August 1954 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Michael Dolan was born in 1884 in Ireland. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Talk of a Million (1951). He was married to Kathleen Fogarty. He died on 21 October 1954 in Dublin, 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.
- Sean P. O'Riordain was born on 17 December 1904 in Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland. He died on 11 April 1957 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. - Writer
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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.- Director
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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.- Bert Carroll was an actor, known for Ireland's Border Line (1938). He died on 25 July 1962 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.- 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.
- 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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Brendan Behan was born on 9 February 1923 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a writer, known for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Borstal Boy (2000) and The Quare Fellow (1962). He was married to Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld. He died on 20 March 1964 in Dublin, Ireland.- Actor
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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.- James Neylin was born on 9 March 1920 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Pride and Prejudice (1952), The Mad O'Haras (1958) and Garry Halliday (1959). He was married to Joyce Ash. He died on 25 September 1965 in Dublin, 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.
- 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.
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Frank O'Connor was born on 17 September 1903 in Cork, Ireland, UK [now Cork, Ireland]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Sound of Wild Laughter, Camera Three (1955) and The Rising of the Moon (1957). He was married to Harriet Rich and Evelyn Bowen. He died on 10 March 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.- Flann O'Brien was born on 5 October 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland. He was a writer, known for At Swim-Two-Birds, In Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel (1997) and Th' Oul Lad of Kilsalaher (1965). He was married to Evelyn McDonnell. He died on 1 April 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Maura Laverty was born on 15 May 1907 in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland. Maura was a writer, known for Tolka Row (1964) and Tolka Row (1959). Maura was married to Seamus James Laverty. Maura died on 26 July 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.
- William G. O'Gorman was born in 1903 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for I See a Dark Stranger (1946). He died on 30 August 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Rutherford Mayne was born in 1878 in Japan. He was a writer, known for Bridge-Head (1939). He died on 25 February 1967 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland.
- Dennis Franks was born in 1902. He was an actor, known for A Question of Suspense (1961), The Rising of the Moon (1957) and Armchair Theatre (1956). He died on 14 October 1967 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Patrick Kavanagh was born on 21 October 1904 in Mucker, Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was married to Katherine Barry Moloney. He died on 30 November 1967 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Eveline Kirkwood-Hackett was born in July 1876 in West Hartlepool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Last Holiday (1950) and Another Shore (1948). She died on 8 February 1968 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Joseph O'Dea was born in 1903 in Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Quiet Man (1952) and The Rising of the Moon (1957). He died on 1 March 1968 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.