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Plate for the July 1913 issue of the Irish Review by Harry Clarke. The plate “The Silver Apples of the Moon, the Golden Apples of the Sun” illustrates W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”

Frontispiece of the February 1914 Irish Review with plate by Sarah Purser entitled “A Kinsale Fisherwoman.”

Frontispiece of the January 1912 Irish Review with a plate by Nathaniel Hone entitled “The Wave.” Nathaniel Hone II (1831-1917) was connected with other important painters and art dealers on the Irish scene such as John B. Yeats, Sarah Purser and…

Frontispiece of the March 1913 Irish Review with plate by George Russell (AE) entitled “The Plough and the Earth Spirit.” In the Review under the nom de plume AE, Russell contributed poetry and paintings inspired by his mystic beliefs. He used his…

The Golden Joy is Thomas MacDonagh’s third collection of poetry.  According to Lawrence William White, this volume symbolizes MacDonagh’s transition ‘from Christian mysticism to neo-platonism’ where the poet is conceived ‘as divinely inspired…

1904 Vocal Score for Thomas MacDonagh's The Exodus: A Sacred Cantata (Words by MacDonagh, music by Benedetto Palmieri). In 1904 Thomas MacDonagh won the first price at the Dublin Feis Ceoil for a religious cantata that he wrote with music by the…

The inaugural play of the Irish Theatre, Edward Martyn's The Dream Physician (1914). The Dream Physician was the inaugural play of the Irish Theatre a new dramatic venture set up in 1914 by Martyn, Thomas MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett and ‘conceived…

Thomas MacDonagh's fourth collection of poems. This collection is MacDonagh’s fourth collection of poetry after Through the Ivory Gate (1902), April, May and Other Verse (1903), The Golden Joy (1906). According to Lawrence William White, even if…

Thomas MacDonagh's Third Play, Pagans (1915)Pagans is Thomas MacDonagh’s third play after When the Dawn Has Come (1908) and Metempsychosis (1912) and was first produced in April 1915 by the Irish Theatre in Hardwicke Street for a run of six nights.…

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…