William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

male, deceased (1939)
Golden Dawn, sligo, Lady Gregory, CelticRevival, Irish, poet…Irish literary revival
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a driving force behind the...
George Moore

George Moore

male, deceased (1933)
Literary realism, Victorian poetry, Alumni of St. Mary's College, Oscott, realist, French, artist…CelticRevival
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed...
Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum

male, deceased (1972)
buried at St. Fintan's Cemetery, Irish literature, Playwright, Biographer, Irish, dramatist…CelticRevival
Padraic Colum (8 December, 1881 - 11 January, 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the...
William Sharp

William Sharp

male, deceased (1905)
Algernon Swinburne, W. B. Yeats, Glasgow Academy, Literary hoaxes, CelticRevival, Castello di Maniace
William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept...
William Orpen

William Orpen

male, deceased (1931)
KBE, Order of the British Empire, painter, Sean Keating, Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, To the Unknown British Soldier Killed in France…CelticRevival
Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE (27 November, 1878 - 29 September, 1931) was an Irish-born British portrait painter. He studied art...