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...Last Picture Show, Abbey Cinema I, daily...
Happy Birthday Wanda June. Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
...Last Picture Show, Abbey cinema I, daily...
Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
...from an Ireland that had disappeared." Joyce, in Ulysses, credited the gnomelike storyteller with "that strange thing called genius." Yet towering Irish writers like Joyce himself partially eclipsed the less assertive talent of Colum. His literary legacy to Ireland was nonetheless enormous. Colum helped set up Dublin's Abbey Theater and the Irish Review before emigrating to New York in 1914 with his wife, Literary Critic Mary Gunning Maguire. Both Colums occasionally taught at Columbia University, but Padraic devoted most of his energy to producing hundreds of poems, essays, plays, histories, biographies and children's stories...