Life
1891-1979; b. Dublin, son of IRB-man, and member of Sinn Féin; ed. O’Connell Schools and UCD (Celtic Studies); visited US to buy arms from Germans; friend of Casement; asst. sec. Irish Volunteers, Comm., 1913-15; asst. keeper Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland, 1914-16; Interned 1916; asst. keeper nat. Museum, 1922-1936; keeper of the Art
and Industrial Division, 1936-56; assisted Pádraig O Duinnín revising Irish-English dictionary, 1923-27; translated works by classical and modern European poets, and wrote a study of European poetry which remains unpublished; modelled his poetry on Irish *bardic poetry and the example of sophisticated early modernists such as Theophile Gautier and Arthur Rimbaud, experimenting with verse forms and metres; d. Dublin.
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Works
Poetry , Nua-Dhánta (1919), Dánta agus Duanóga (1929), Dánta an Lae Indiu (1936), Dánta Eile (1946), Dánta agus Duanta (1952), and Duanaire a Sé (1966).
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