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Colum, Padraic - My Irish Year
New York City, James Pott & Co, 1912. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 286. Thick 8vo. Bound in original decorated ribbed green cloth. 15 black & white plates & photos. Cloth wrinkled, edge-rubbed, lightly soiled & scuffed. Carries old donation bookplate. Binding shaken; else good condition. Colum (1881-1972) was an Irish-American author and poet. Born in Longford, Ireland, he was active in the Irish literary renaissance and helped found the famous Abbey Theatre. He married in 1912, and moved with his family to New York in 1914. They relocated to France in the 1930s, where Colum renewed his friendship with James Joyce, and for whom he typed parts of 'Finnegan's Wake'. On returning to America, he taught comparative literature at Columbia University, and became an American citizen in 1945. 'My Irish Year' is composed of studies made while the author was living among the people of the Midlands and the West [of Ireland]. 'It is not representative of the whole of Ireland: Catholic and Peasant Ireland only is shown, localized in a strip of country crossing the Midlands to the West.' 'The life described may stand for the life of the Catholic peasantry. And the Catholic peasantry are not merely the bulk of the Irish population; they are, roughly speaking, the historic Irish nation' (from the author's Introduction). The book is divided into four Parts, the final one of which deals with 'The Crisis in Ireland'. The author was clearly a republican, and eschews the control which England then exerted over Irish life and government. In this, and in the experssion of his sentiments, he clearly antecedes 'the Troubles' only a few years' hence. This is the first American edition, this title also having been published in Great Britain, by Mills and Boon, 1912. It is a very scarce title by an important Irish American author, playwright, and poet. .
USD 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 392.75 | £UK 337.5 | JP¥ 66425] Booknumber: 9900034099
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USD 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 392.75 | £UK 337.5 | JP¥ 66425] Booknumber: 9900034099
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Total: USD 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 392.75 | £UK 337.5 | JP¥ 66425]
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