Padraic colum biography

One of the great figures in the revival of literature in Ireland, Padraic Colum was born in County Longford in 1881. His father worked in a workhouse for the first 9 years of Colum’s life but then lost his job, prompting him to race to America to take part in the much vaunted gold rush at the time. The rest of the family stayed in County Longford until 1892 when they moved to a place near Dublin where Colum went to school.

When he left there at 17, following the death of his mother, Colum found a job with the Irish Railway, a post he would hold until 1903. By this time he had also begun to write and, being close to Dublin, came into contact with some of the great writers of the time including W B Yeats and George William Russell. He met James Joyce and the two became lifelong friends and also found a wealthy patron in Thomas Kelly.

Colum wrote his first play, The Saxon Shillin’, in 1902 and it won a prize from The Society of Gaels, a political party that was interested in a free

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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum (Columcille, 8 dicembre1881 – Enfield, 11 gennaio1972) è stato un poeta, romanziere, drammaturgo e biografoirlandese e si occupò di scrivere opere che racchiudevano il folclore locale. Fu una delle principali figure del Revival Celtico.

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Colum, il cui vero nome era Padraic Columb nacque nella Contea di Longford, nel ricovero per poveri dove lavorava suo padre. Fu il primo di otto figli. Quando perse il lavoro nel 1889, il padre si trasferì negli Stati Uniti d'America per partecipare alla corsa all’oro in Colorado, mentre Padraic, sua madre e i suoi fratelli rimasero in Irlanda. Quando il padre tornò nel 1892, la famiglia si trasferì a Glasthule, fuori Dublino, dove suo padre venne assunto come vicedirettore varenda stazione ferroviaria Sandycove e Glasthule. Coulm frequentò la scuola nazionale locale.

Quando nel 1897 la madre di Colum morì, la famiglia si divise temporaneamente. Padraic e uno dei frate

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Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972):
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Padraic Colum was born in County Longford and reared on his grandfather's farm in County Cavan. He worked as a clerk in the railway clearing-house in Dublin and began to write in 1903. His plays Broken Soil (later renamed The Fiddler's House); The Land; and Thomas Muskerry were produced for the theatre. He was the author of lyrics such as 'She Moved Through the Fair'. In 1907 his first collection of poems The Wild Earth was published. Before moving to amerika, where he taught comparative literature at Columbia University, he co-founded the Irish Review. During his stay in America he published folk tales in the New York Tribune and was invited by the government of Hawaii to investigate their myths and legends and to write them as children's stories. His collected poems appeared in 1953. He was given doctrates from both University College, Dublin, and Columbia University, and he was awarded the Gregory Medal of the Irish Academy of