Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum ( born December 8, 1881 in Collumbkille in County Longford; † January 11, 1972 in Enfield, Connecticut) was an Irish writer and one of the leaders of the Irish Renaissance. He wrote poems, novels, plays, biographies and children's books.
Life
Colum was born in 1881 as the first of eight children in an Irish household workers; his birth name was Patrick Collumb. When his father became unemployed in 1889, he went to the USA to take advantage of the gold rush in Colorado, while the rest of the family remained in Ireland. As Colum's father returned to Ireland in 1892, the family moved to the vicinity of Dublin, where his father had found work at the local railway station.
1897 Colum mother died, after which the family was temporarily torn apart. 1898 graduated from the Columbus School and got a job as an accountant at the Irish railways. He remained in this position until 1903.
During this time, Colum began writing and met with leading contemporary Irish writers together, including WB Yeats, Lady Gregory and Æ. In 1901 he joined the Gaelic League and took Padraic Colum, the Irish form of his name in 1904 he was among the founding members of the Abbey Theatre. During his regular visits to the Irish National Library he met James Joyce and began a lifelong friendship between the two authors. From a wealthy American patron Colum received a five-year scholarship to the University College Dublin.
Colum wrote a series of first listed at the Abbey Theatre pieces; his first pieces came out briefly in succession in 1902, 1903 and 1905. 1907 appeared with Wild Earth, his first book; it contained many of the previously published in a newspaper called The United Irishman poems. Among his other literary activities Colum also collected Irish folk songs and wrote lyrics for folk songs.
In 1911, Colum, among others, his future wife Mary Gunning Maguire, under the title The Irish Review a short-lived literary magazine in which nevertheless works by important writers of the Irish Renaissance were printed.
Married in 1912 and Colum Maguire ( called Molly ). They lived in the vicinity of Dublin and held on Tuesdays from a literary salon. In 1914 she took a trip to the U.S., from an eight -year stay was.
In America, Columbus Children's books began to write and published several collections of short stories for children. A publishing contract for the " production " of children's books gave him for the rest of his life financial security. In addition, he published three volumes of his History of Hawaiian tales. In addition, he began to write novels.
From 1930 to 1933 lived Colum and his wife in Paris and Nice, where Colum renewed his friendship with Joyce and abtippte parts of Finnegans Wake for him. After her time in France, the Colum moved to New York City, where perceived both jobs at Columbia University and the City College of New York in 1945 and received American citizenship. 1961 Colum receiver was the Regina Medal, an annual award from the American Library Association for Catholic children's book authors.
In his later pieces Colum took forms from the Noh drama. In all, he published his plays next 61 books.
Colum's wife Molly died in 1957. Colum presented their joint autobiography, Our Friend James Joyce finished; it appeared in 1958. His last years were spent Colum alternately in the U.S. and in Ireland. He died in 1972 at the age of 90 years in Enfield, Connecticut, and was buried near Dublin.
Works (selection)
- Also awarded a Newbery Honor of ALA