| Padraic
Colum |
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| Nationality - Irish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 08 Dec 1881
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Date of death - 1972 |
| Place of birth
- Collumbkille : County Longford |
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Padraic Colum was born in Collumbkille, County Longford, Ireland on December 8, 1881.
His father was master of the workhouse (home for the destitute), so as a youngster Padraic saw first-hand the poverty and land hunger of the people.
His uncle was a poultry dealer, and the young Colum traveled with him to fairs and markets where he met the wandering people of the roads, ballad singers, and storytellers and found inspiration for some of the poems which have become part of Ireland's literary heritage. "She Moves through the Fair" and "The Old Woman of the Roads" are among his numerous simple lyrics which have often been anthologized.
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His first poems appeared in The United Irishman, edited by Arthur Griffith. The Saxon Shillin' (1902) won a competition for a play to discourage young Irishmen from joining the British army.
Colum acted with the new Irish National Theatre Society, but after his play Broken Soil was staged in 1903, he concentrated on writing.
His first book of verse, Wild Earth, appeared in 1907, with lyric poems like 'The Plougher', 'A Drover' and 'An Old Woman of the Roads'.
In 1914 he and his wife Mary left Ireland for America, soon entering New York literary circles.
In the thirties the Colums left for France. There he renewed his old friendship with James Joyce, for whom he typed parts of Finnegans Wake.
The Colums returned to America and were made US citizens in 1945.
Padraic Colum died in Enfield, Connecticut on January 11, 1972 and was buried in Ireland. |
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