Word: padraic
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...COMPLETE GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Commentary by Joseph Campbell. Illustrations by Josef Scharl. 864 pages. Pantheon...
...Died. Padraic Colum, 90, a figure in the turn-of-the-century Irish literary renaissance that included James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and Sean O'Casey; of a stroke; in Enfield, Conn. He was brought up, he said, "where waifs, strays and tramps congregated, and was entertained by the gossip and history of old men and old women who were survivals 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...
...complication: the Easter Rebellion. In 1905, the Fenians had reorganized into a formal political party called the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). Eight years later, some of its members helped form the rebel militia that eventually became known as the Irish Republican Army. On Easter Monday, 1916, the poet Padraic Pearse, one of the founding heroes of the I.R.A., stood in front of Dublin's General Post Office and read out a proclamation declaring Ireland a republic. The Easter Rebellion was easily crushed. The British executed 15 of its leaders, including Pearse; about 3,500 men and 79 women were placed...