Irish Review
Opening page of P.H. Pearse's translations from the Irish 'Specimens from an Irish Anthology'. 'Specimens from an Irish Anthology was a series of six translations from Irish lyrics that appeared in the Irish Review in from March to Jun 1911 and in August and November of the same year. Pearse also contributed another seven-part series of translations entitled 'Songs of the Irish Rebels' which featured from August 1913 to February 1914. In addition, he also wrote in English articles on education which will later become part of his pamphlet The Murder Machine.
Roger Casement’s article, ‘Ireland, Germany and the next War,’ was published in the Irish Review in July 1913 and presents possible scenarios for Ireland in the context of the Home Rule bill and of the growing European tensions. In the Review Casement also published a poem entitled ‘In the Streets of Catania’ (Sept. 1912).
Richard Joseph Long’s painting ‘Reflections’ reproduced in the July 1912 issue of the Irish Review was exhibited at the Oireachtas Art Exhibition in 1911 along with another of his works 'Edge of the Wood'. According to Ann Stewart, Long also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1914 with a portrait of Samuel Anderson, Esq., L.D.S., Galway and ‘Reflections’. At this time his address was 1 High Street Galway.
Sources
Luddy, Maria. “(Johanna) Hanna Sheehy- Skeffington". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.
Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna. ‘The Women’s Movement—Ireland’. Irish Review. July 1912. Print.
Stewart, Ann. Irish Art Societies and Sketching Clubs: Index of Exhibitors, 1870-1980. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. Print.
*** I would like to thank Dr Roísín Kennedy in the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy for providing information and sources on Richard Long***
]]>Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington's article about the Women's Movement in Ireland appeared in the Irish Review in July 1912, on the eve of her imprisonment following a demonstration of the Irish Women’s Franchise League in June 1912. As Maria Luddy documents, during the demonstrations some windows in government buildings were broken and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and other women were imprisoned for a month and from prison they lobbied for political status (DIB). The article in the Review documents the work of Irish women’s movements, and attacks stereotypical view of women as passive and subservient to men and advocates for women’s active participation in the public sphere.
Richard Joseph Long’s painting ‘Reflections’ reproduced in the July 1912 issue of the Irish Review was exhibited at the Oireachtas Art Exhibition in 1911 along with another of his works 'Edge of the Wood'. According to Ann Stewart, Long also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1914 with a portrait of Samuel Anderson, Esq., L.D.S., Galway and ‘Reflections’. At this time his address was 1 High Street Galway.
Sources
Luddy, Maria. “(Johanna) Hanna Sheehy- Skeffington". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.
Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna. ‘The Women’s Movement—Ireland’. Irish Review. July 1912. Print.
Stewart, Ann. Irish Art Societies and Sketching Clubs: Index of Exhibitors, 1870-1980. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. Print.
*** I would like to thank Dr Roísín Kennedy in the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy for providing information and sources on Richard Long***
Sources
MacDonagh, Thomas. “Metempsychosis: or A Mad World. A Play in One Act” The Irish Review. February 1912. 585-599. Print.
Nolan, Jerry. ‘Edward Martyn’s Struggle for an Irish National Theater, 1899-1920’. New Hibernia Review. Vol. 7, N. 2, Samhradh/Summer 2003. Print.
Norstedt, Johann A.. Thomas MacDonagh. A Critical Biography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. Print.
White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Thomas". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.
]]>Thomas MacDonagh's second play Metempsychosis (1912)
First printed in The Irish Review, the play is a satire of theosophy and occultism. It was first performed on 18,19, 20 April 1912 by the Theatre of Ireland, a company formed in 1906 from a number of intellectuals and practitioners dissatisfied with the Abbey Theatre aesthetic and including Padraic Colum, P.H. Pearse, and Edward Martyn among others. Critics often focus on the main character Earl Winton-Winton de Winton who provides a unmerciful caricature of W.B. Yeats. However, Norstedt notes how the other character ‘Stranger’ is also satirized and argues that the ‘Stranger could be seen as a parody of MacDonagh’s initial reverence for Yeats (later regretted) and of MacDonagh’s own ideas of immortality expressed in some of his poems. White also notes how the play was misinterpreted as a serious comment on the topic of transmigration of souls.
Sources
MacDonagh, Thomas. “Metempsychosis: or A Mad World. A Play in One Act” The Irish Review. February 1912. 585-599. Print.
Nolan, Jerry. ‘Edward Martyn’s Struggle for an Irish National Theater, 1899-1920’. New Hibernia Review. Vol. 7, N. 2, Samhradh/Summer 2003. Print.
Norstedt, Johann A.. Thomas MacDonagh. A Critical Biography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. Print.
White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Thomas". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Web.