Edward Martyn

Edward Martyn (born 30 January 1859 in Tullira, County Galway, † December 5, 1923 ) was an Irish playwright and politician of Sinn Féin.

Life

Martyn wrote some dramas, which were inspired by Henrik Ibsen and George Moore. He was a neighbor of Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and made this known in his home in Tullira with William Butler Yeats. His house in Tullira on the Doorus Peninsula was next to his cousin Florimond de Basterot in the 1890s to the leading place of the literary movement and, ultimately, the nationalist movement in Ireland.

In 1898 he founded with WB Yeats, Lady Gregory and George Moore, the Abbey Theatre, the Irish National Theatre in Dublin. Some years later he was one of the leading figures of the literary circle in Dunguaire Castle, at the 1904 next to him again Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge, and Oliver St. John Gogarty took part.

Shortly thereafter, he began to become politically active and was after its founding on November 28, 1905 between 1905 and 1908 first chairman of Sinn Féin.

External links and sources

• Works by or about Edward Martyn in the catalog that German national library

• Author
• Literature (19th century)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Drama
• Politicians (Ireland )
• Member of Sinn Féin
• Irishman
• Born in 1859
• Died in 1923
• Man