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Padraic Colum

Male : Poet, Novelist, Biographer and Dramatist. Married Mary Maguire in 1912, they went to the USA 1914 and remained there for the rest of their lives
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Co Longford

Date of Birth : 1881 Date of Death : 1972 Age : 91

Other Work : A founder of the Irish Review, with James Stephens & Thomas MacDonagh in 1911

Education : National School, Sandycove, Dublin & University College, Dublin
1903-1910
Broken Soil
(1903)
The Land : A Play
(1905 Abbey Theatre, Dublin) (1905 NY)
Wild Earth & Other Poems
(1907 Maunsel, Dublin)
The Fiddler's House : Play
(1907 Maunsel, Dublin)
Heather Ale
(1907) - poetry pamphlet
Studies
(1907 Maunsel, Dublin)
The Fiddler's House & The Land
(1909 Maunsel, Dublin)

1911-1920
Thomas Muskerry
(1910 Maunsel, Dublin)
The Desert
(1912 Devereaux, Dublin)
My Irish Year
(1912 Mills & Boon, London) (1912 NY)
A Boy in Eirinn
(1913 Dutton, NY) (1915 Dent) - Jack Butler Yeats
The King of Ireland's Son
(1916 Macmillan, NY) (1920 Harrap) - Willy Pogany
Wild Earth & Other Poems
(1916 Holt, NY) (1916 Maunsel) - New Ed with additional poems
Mogu the Wanderer, or The Desert
(1917 Little Brown, Boston) - New Version of The Desert
Three Plays
(1917 Maunsel, Dublin & London) (1925 Macmillan NY)
The Boy Who Knew what the Birds Said
(1918 Macmillan, NY)
The Adventures of Odysseus, or the Children's Homer
(1918 Macmillan, NY) (1920 Harrap)
- Willy Pogany
The Girl who Sat by the Ashes
(1919 Macmillan, NY)
The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
(1920 Macmillan, NY)
The Children of Odin : A Book of Northern Myths
(1920 Macmillan, NY) (1922 Harrap) - Willy Pogany

1921-1925
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles
(1921 Macmillan, NY) - Willy Pogany
The Children Who Followed the Piper
(1922 Macmillan, NY)
(Intro) Oliver Goldsmith (nd.c1922 Herbert & Daniel, London)
Dramatic Legends & Other Poems
(1922 Macmillan NY) (1922 Macmillan)
Castle Conquer : A Novel
(1923 Macmillan, NY) (1923 London)
At the Gateways of the Day
(1924 Yale UP) (1924 London)
The Island of the Mighty
(1924 Macmillan, NY)
The Peep-Show Man
(1924 Macmillan, NY) (1925 London)
Six Who were Left in a Shoe
(1924 Brentano, London)
The Bright Islands
(1925 Yale UP) (1925 London)
The Forge in the Forest
(1925 Macmillan, NY)
The Voyagers : Being Legends & Romances of Atlantic Discovery
(1925 Macmillan, NY)

1926-1930
The Road Round Ireland
(1926 Macmillan, NY) (1927 Macmillan)
Creatures
(1927 Macmillan NY) - <Boris Artzybasheff > - 300 signed & numbered (1928 London)
The Fountain of Youth : Stories to be Told
(1927 Macmillan, NY) (1939 Dublin)
Balloon : A Comedy in 4 Acts
(1929 Macmillan, NY)
Cross Roads in Ireland
(1930 Macmillan, NY & London)
Old Pastures
(1930 Macmillan, NY)
Orpheus : Myths of the World
(1930 Macmillan, NY & London)
Three Men
(1930 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 530 numbered & signed

1931-1935
A Half-Day's Ride : or Estates in Corsica
(1932 Macmillan, NY & London)
Poems
(1932 Macmillan, NY & London)
The Big Tree of Bunlahy : Stories of My Own Countryside
(1933 Macmillan, NY)
(1934 Macmillan, London)
The White Sparrow
(1933 Macmillan, NY) - Lynd Ward
The Legend of St Columba
(1935 Macmillan, NY) (1936 Sheed & Ward, London)

1936-1940
The Story of Lowry Maen
(1937 Macmillan, NY & London)
Legends of Hawaii
(1937 Yale UP) (1937 London)
Flower Pieces : New Poems
(1938 Orwell, Dublin)
The Jackdaw
(1939 Gayfield, Dublin) - pamphlet
Where the Winds Never Blew and the Cocks Never Crew
(1940 Macmillan, NY) - Richard Bennett

1941-1950
The Frenzied Prince, Being Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland
(1943 McKay, Phila) - Willy Pogany

1951-1960
Collected Poems
(1953 Devin-Adair, NY) - originally published 1932
A Treasury of Irish Folklore
(1954 Crown NY)
The Vegetable Kingdom
(1954 Indiana UP)
Ten Poems
(1957 Dolmen Press, Dublin)
The Flying Swans
(1957 Crown, NY) (1969 A Figgis, Dublin)
Irish Elegies
(1958 Dolmen Press) - 300
Our Friend James Joyce
(1958 Doubleday) (1959 Gollancz 16/-) - with Mary Colum
Garland Sunday
(1958 Dolmen, Dublin) - broadsheet poem
Ourselves Alone : The Story of Arthur Griffith & the Origin of the Irish Free State
(1959 Crown, NY)
Arthur Griffith 1872-1922
(1959 Browne & Nolan, Dublin) - same as above title
The Poet's Circuits : Collected Poems of Ireland
(1960 OUP)

Since 1961
Story Telling, New and Old
(1961 Macmillan, NY)
Moytura : A Play for Dancers
(1963 Dolmen Press, Dublin) - 750
The Stone of Victory & Other Tales of Padraic Colum
(1966 McGraw-Hill) (1966 London)
Images of Departure
(1969 Dolmen)
The White Sparrow
(1972 US) (1975 as "The Sparrow Alone" by Blackie) - Joseph Low
The Poet's Circuits
(1981 Dolmen) - 175 numbered
Selected Poems
(Ed by Sanford Sternlight) (1989 Syracuse UP)

READING
Zack Bowen : Padraic Colum - A Biographical-Critical Introduction
(1970 S Illinois UP)

Related Writers

Oliver Goldsmith
Willy Pogany


See also

James (augustine Aloysius) Joyce
Newbery Awards 1922-1998