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THE STAGE Politics and Fairy Tales ONE OF the secondary but still highly pernicious effects of the Cold War is its perversion of a whole range of phenomena and values that lie outside its...

A POET IS BROUGHT HOME (October 1948)

will be in the position of a patient whom I en-countered during my student days. He was a Russian Jew afflicted with a psychosis. Apart from his psychotic symptoms, which I have for- gotten, he was...

Jules Bois (August 1943)

438 THE COMMONWEAL August 20, 1943 Jules Bois An embodiment of an earlier day in French letters By Padraic Colum IT IS NOT my...

DR. HYDE OF EIRE (May 1939)

Dr. Hyde of Eire Something of the personal and literary quality of the Protestant scholar who was unanimously elected President of a Catholic country. By Padraie D UBLIN CASTLE is not a...

The Irish Melodist (November 1937)

November 26, 1937 The Commonweal 123 THE IRISH MELODIST By PADRAIC COLUM Y A COINCIDENCE which is perhaps B unfortunate for the sales of one or the other of them, two books on Thomas Moore have...

The New Irish Constitution (July 1937)

July 16, 1937 The Commonweal 297 THE NEW IRISH CONSTITUTION By PADRAIC COLUM THE NEW Irish Constitution is a voluminous document, filling fifty-seven pages of a booklet submitted...

Ireland's Heroic Age (January 1937)

IRELAND'S HEROIC AGE By PADRAIC COLUM "WHERE can I get a readable version of the ancient stories that modern Irish writers refer to?" is a question that is often put to people who are supposed to...

King Cahill's Farewell (verse) (November 1936)

King Cahill's Farewell (Written to The Londenderry Air) "The autumn sun your shadow's flung, my Cahill, Upon the field where now your reaping's done-Lo there! and lo! the reaper's wreath of rushes...

Ireland and Parnell (September 1936)

September 11, 1936 The Commonweal 459 IRELAND AND PARNELL By PADRAIC COLUM THE PUBLICATION of Margaret Leamy's book ("Parnell's Faithful Few," New York, The Macmillan Company),...

A Dublin Scholar (May 1936)

42 A DUBLIN SCHOLAR By PADRAIC COLUM THE FIRST time I saw Stephen MacKenna was in the office of the Freeman's Journal, in one of the shabby dens in which an editorial writer confined...

Books (October 1935)

Books The Dying Esthete Europa, by Robert Briffault. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.75. THE CINEMA, the radio and the novel are the three great popular vehicles of ideas in our...

The Judgment (September 1935)

September 27, 1935 The Commonweal 523 THE JUDGMENT By PADRAIC COLUM NO SOONER had King Dermott got back to Tara than he heard of Colum-cille again, and again he heard of him in a way that...

The Book and the Battle (September 1935)

THE BOOK AND THE BATTLE By PADRAIC COLUM WHEN that sainted man and great multiplier of books in Ireland, Colum-cille, visited the monastery of Druim Finn, he found the Abbot Finnen...

Nasturtiums (verse) (July 1935)

Nasturtiums You run to link with Other blooms, The staid, the savage, Geraniums, poppies; You have the jungle In your veins, Being Andean Indian girls; Yet you redeem Much...

Revaluing Sheridan (July 1935)

July 5, 1935 The Commonweal 261 REVALUING SHERIDAN By PADRAIC COLUM IN THE middle of the seventeenth century an Irish Catholic priest changed his religion and became a Protestant rector:...

Hibiscus (verse) (June 1935)

Hibiscus They have the scarlet that was on the lips That prophets smote with curses till they paled : Even Sidonian queens Who praised Astarte's name When ships of Tyre came in. Their scarlet...

On Yeats (May 1934)

ON YEATS By PADRAIC COLUM NO MODERN poet writing in English has developed so continuously as William Butler Yeats. Again and again he has discovered new material and new idiom: Tennyson, Browning,...

Les Iles de Lerins (March 1934)

576 LES ILES DE LERINS By PADRAIC COLUM WHERE the yachts of the world's millionaires are I saw a steamer ready for departure: a placard said it was bound for the islets of St. Honorat and...

Theatricalities of the Fair (August 1933)

August 25, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 40S THEATRICALITIES OF THE FAIR By...

The Pilgrim (verse) (August 1933)

August 18, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 387 one likely to be marked by considerable loss in member- that obtains...

To Be Only Wise Is Not Wisdom (July 1933)

3o~, THE COMMONWEAL July 2i, I933 TO BE ONLY WISE IS NOT WISDOM By PADRAIC COLUM o NCE, when I was walking down a street in Dublin with him, John Butler Yeats said to me, "Our liking for people...

Books (June 1933)

I34 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, I933 BOOKS Modern Criticism The Literature of the New Testament, by Ernest Findlay Scott. New Y~rk: Columbia University Prest. ~3.00. M R. SCOTT is professor of...

Books (February 1933)

470 THE COMMONWEAL February 22, 1933 BOOKS Matins and Lauds Why Birds Sing, by Jacques Delamain; translated by Ruth and Anna Sarason; decorations by Prentiss Taylor. New...

Factors in Irish Affairs (February 1933)

February i, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 375 FACTORS IN IRISH AFFAIRS By PADRAIC COLUM I SHALL begin by giving Mr. De Valera's administration a certain credit. Under his government there have...

The City of Saint Martin (January 1933)

THE CITY OF SAINT MARTIN By PADRAIC COLUM WHILE others-'of my' fellow countrymen were following the footprints of our patron at home, I tried to come on some of them in France. Saint Patrick is...

James Clarence Mangan (November 1932)

November 9, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 45 JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN By PADRAIC COLUM "T WOULD far and away prefer," Mangan said of himself, A "being a great necromancer to being a great writer or...

Books (October 1932)

594 THE COMMONWEAL October 19, 1932 J BOOKS The Gentleman from Indiana Beveridge and the Progressive Era, by Claude G. Bowers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. A LBERT J. BEVERIDGE was...

The Knitters (verse) (June 1932)

June I, I932 THE COMMONWEAL x3I I t were vain to deny that there are certain practical difficulties in the way of achieving immediate success in our Catholic program. But no difficulties can...

Being a Sightseer (April 1932)

66i BEING A SIGHTSEER By PADRAIC COLUM The Waxworks AGAIN I am at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition. And it happens again as it happened on former occasions. "We are closing in a quarter of an...

The New Irish Regime (March 1932)

572 THE COMMONWEAL March 23, 1932 THE NEW IRISH REGIME By PADRAIC COLUM ONE OF the useful accomplishments of the Cosgrave regime in Ireland has been the making of Mr. De Valera into a...

Dublin Days (December 1931)

DUBLIN DAYS By PADRAIC COLUM THE CAT lying on my arm-chair opens her eyes and makes a movement toward a shadow that is of a bird passing by. I recognize the motion: it was only the shadow of a...

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (October 1931)

October 28, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 635 but Marie did not want to. Marie wanted the boy to have his father's name, Herm; so they named him Herm. Marie al-ways found time to help the boys with their...

The Dublin Zoo (August 1931)

August 26, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 403 Free at last ! There still is time for a leaping gallop across the playground before the dressing bell rings!) Our examination in Etiquette came once a year, on...

An Old Song Remade (verse) (August 1931)

36o THE COMMONWEAL August 12, 1931 these days of myriad investment trusts, radio prices quoted less tubes, tabloid advertising and other guileful commercial practices to which the public has become...

The Country Fair (July 1931)

July 22, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 303 THE COUNTRY FAIR By PADRAIC COLUM I N THE generality of Irish country towns haphazardness, patched-upedness, and planlessness is carried to such a pitch that,...

Achill Girl's Song (verse) (June 1931)

128 THE COMMONWEAL June 3, 1931 picture save vaguely and through the grime of ages of misrepresentation and caricaturing. But comes the divorce ! Humanism is humanism, Catholicism is...

Books (May 1931)

5o THE COMMONWEAL May 13, 1931 The Lewisohn Dance Program S INCE the Neighborhood Playhouse, under Miss Irene Lewisohn, abandoned play production in favor of annual recitals of important music...

Places and Persons (April 1931)

WILL YOU or nill you, when you go third class you are a member of a community. Travel first or second and you don't have to push along corridors or crowd In and out of dining-rooms. You exist as...

On Cakes (March 1931)

SHROVE TUESDAY, it was rightly decided, should be celebrated by the eating of pancakes. It is the eve of Lent, and it has always been recognized that the most satisfactory way of preparing for a...

Goldsmith the Essayist (November 1930)

GOLDSMITH was already an essayist when he left the Irish countryside. Letters written by him while he was a student to a cousin or an uncle are essays: they have entertaining layout, they have...

Woodbine (verse) (November 1930)

The hawthorns now Are gone from the hedge— Their scent, their flower: But a moon-colored spray, A foam-colored spray, Are near the thatch, Where, round the porch With stem as thick As beam...

Egsiabeher (verse) (October 1930)

Sgsiabeher (To Father Plassmann) He wrote the letters down from left to right, Not as in Arabic from right to left, And then pronounced the syllables they made. And I heard on the Mountains of...

The Vale of the Liffey (October 1930)

THE VALE OF THE LIFFEY By PADRAIC COLUM THERE is nothing like a river to give dignity to a town-- a river with fine bridges across it: men as they pass over bridges have a dignity that does not...

Gatherings of Harpers (August 1930)

GATHERING OF HARPERS By PADRAIC COLUM ON A certain day towards the end of the eighteenth century there were two gatherings in Belfast. One was to rejoice over the fall of the Bastile and to...

Carl Schmitt's Art (June 1930)

CARL SCHMITT'S ART By PADRAIC COLUM ' I* HE most memorable pictures by a present-day ¦*¦ painter that I have seen in a long time are being exhibited in the Park Avenue Galleries. They are by...

Maynooth (March 1930)

MAYNOOTH By PADRAIC COLUM THE entrance to Saint Patrick's College is wholly unexpected: one goes through gates surmounted by slender sphinxes-the rococo where one expected to find the Gothic. This...

On Rereading Thomas Moore (February 1930)

ON REREADING THOMAS MOORE By PADRAIC COLUM I HAVE given myself the task of commenting on nearly every poem in a volume that is before me- a collection of less than thirty pieces-because I think...

Irish Earls and Irish Castles (January 1930)

IRISH EARLS AND IRISH CASTLES By PADRAIC COLUM JUST at the entrance to the College of Maynooth where the priests of Ireland receive their training, there is the ruin of a great castle-an...

Bliss Carman's Sanctuary (December 1929)

BLISS CARMAN'S SANCTUARY By PADRAIC COLUM THERE is an hour in the day when birds fly close to the hedges and are suddenly present in gardens; when flowers are no longer flaunting, and trees are a...

A Breffne Caoine (verse) (November 1929)

A Breffne Caoine Not as a woman of the English weeping over a lord of the English Do I weep- A cry that scarcely stirs the heart! I lament as it is in my blood to lament: Castle and stronghold...

Derry: City of Two Traditions (September 1929)

528 ??????? ???? ?? ??? ???????????? By PADRAIC COLUM ?? ?? ???????? ?????? ??? ??? ???????? ???? ???? in a principal place in Derry. The main...

Books (September 1929)

THE COMMONWEAL September I I, I929 ! BOOKS The Clever Hymenoptera Instinct and Intelliyence, by R. 1/[7. G. Hzngston. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. HIS book with the...

The Keep at Cloughoughter (July 1929)

July3i, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 331 This is not a manifesto of the Ku Klux Klan but the declaration of a federation which purports to represent and speak for three score organizations the...

Blarney Castle (June 1929)

June 5, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 125 BLARNEY CASTLE By PADRAIC COLUM THE best way to get to Blarney Castle is to walk there—to walk there, I mean, from the town of Cork. You will go to...

Modern Irish Masters (April 1929)

April 24, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 711 MODERN IRISH...

Among the Spring Books (April 1929)

April 17, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 687 AMONG THE SPRING BOOKS ...

The County Show (October 1928)

66o THE COMMONWEAL October 31, 1928 THE COUNTY SHOW By PADRAIC COLUM T LIKE Ballinagh for many reasons—one of them ¦*¦ is that its name means The Mouth of the Ford of Steeds, and that name...

A Day in Meath (September 1928)

A DAY IN MEATH By PADRAIC COLUM SITTING astride on their horses two girls in knickers and with short hair let their reins rest in their hands while Hugh Lucy talks to them out of his endless...

An Interior (June 1928)

AN INTERIOR By PADRAIC COLUM HER mother called her early and confided certain messages to her, and Julia, who was not unused to the mysteries, did everything faithfully and in order. Then the...

The Death of the Rich Man (May 1928)

44 THE COMMONWEAL May 16, 1928 THE DEATH OF THE RICH MAN By PADRAIC COLUM IT WAS a road as shelterless and as bare as any road in Connacht. On one side there was a far-reaching bog, on...

Saint Patrick (March 1928)

HERE are asses carrying on their backs as much as would ordinarily fill an ass-cart—peats in one pannier, provisions in another with a sack of flour laid across the bare back for good...

Samuel Ferguson-Irish Poet (March 1928)

««TT F HE has written a sonnet he is not an Irish I poet," a young man who is a poet and Irish said •*• to me the other day, and I found myself accepting his dictum. For the music that comes to...

Along the Shannon (October 1927)

THERE is one highway in Ireland upon which the traveler need feel no sense of being alien from early or even from legendary times: that highway is the river Shannon. One sees no towns...

The Poet of the Shadows (August 1927)

* « " ^ T 0 R was I indeed ignorant of the flowers and j ^ ^ the vine, but the hemlock and the cypress overshadowed me night and day." So Foe wrote, giving a likely image of his life. Israfel* is...

An Irish Poet-Scholar (July 1927)

IF ANYONE in Irish letters was heir to the humane tradition it was George Sigerson. He belonged to an epoch when a good Irishman might also be a good European. His university years were...

Telling Stories (June 1927)

IT HAS been discovered that there is still a place in the world for an oral art—for story-telling. Those who have charge of children's reading-rooms in American libraries have had to rediscover...

Poems (June 1927)

<iJtQountains This bridge with stone is pillared under. Across the arch the traffic shrills; Beneath, the cars and engines thunder, And the river. Between the hills The valley listens and the...

Books (March 1927)

554 BOOKS King Goshawk and the Birds, by Eitnar & Duffy. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. THE fact that many of the newer Irish writers are apt to deal with life in harsh or in violent...

Poems (February 1927)

February I6, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 411 POEMS arAness Memorial Tower (Yale University) I Thou, russet maid, hast raised our laden eyes Out of the dust we daily walk upon. Even as day's...

Ireland's Creative Idea (January 1927)

IRELAND'S CREATIVE IDEA By PADRAIC COLUM TO APPRECIATE the effort that the Irish government is now making—the effort to develop power that will help to industrialize the country —one has to...

Books (December 1926)

Terry manages to be the dominant figure as the acid, proud and possessive Mrs. Borkman. Many of the scenes recall Miss "Ferry's equally fine work in a well-remembered play of two seasons ago,...

Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy (September 1926)

September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...

Books (September 1926)

September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 47 failed to ring true to common experience....

Three Irish Places (May 1926)

72 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1926 THREE IRISH...

The Slopes of Tara (April 1926)

THE SLOPES OF TARA By PADRAIC COLUM A YOUNG crow perched on a branch outside, barked insistently into a human habitation. Perhaps the internal conditions aroused the young crow's indignation....

Dublin and Dublin's Children (April 1926)

6oo THE COMMONWEAL April 7, 1926 DUBLIN AND DUBLIN'S CHILDREN By PADRAIC COLUM THERE are aspects of Dublin that all who have known; the dty easily recall. One can see it as Gfcorge Moore...

Books (February 1926)

BOOKS Gleanings from Irish History, by W. F. T. Butler. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, $4.50. Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne, an account of the MacSweeney families in Ireland with pedigrees,...

A Character (January 1926)

Thunder Green water cover me, Soft wave and sea thunder; Let me slip to the tide And be drawn under. Nightly, the white sands slide; Daily, the slow tides fall, Wind is among the...

Books (January 1926)

274 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1926 BOOKS Parnell, by St. John Ervine. Boston: Little Brown and Company. $4.00. NO PUBLIC man of western Europe, in our time at least, had a life that...

The First Christmas (December 1925)

i8o THE COMMONWEAL December 23, 1925 THE FIRST CHRISTMAS By PADRAIC COLUM B OYS, O Boys," said the First Shepherd, "this season is very severe! I'm in dread to stand on my feet," said...

Faggi's Via Crucis (November 1925)

18 THE COMMONWEAL November n, 1925 FAGGI'S VIA CRUCIS By PADRAIC COLUM T NSTEAD of being flat and colored like the Stations of A the Cross that we are familiar with, these have...

The Seven Sleepers (October 1925)

October 21, 1925 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 588 sound Poland as a great central European republic in We are not speculating on anybody's sentiments, the rather uncomfortable place which destiny...

Books (September 1925)

508 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Green Hat KATHARINE CORNELL has returned to New York at last, bringing Michael Arlen's The Green Hat with her. Of...

The Servitor (September 1925)

503 THE SERVITOR By PADRAIC COLUM "DENAIAH, King Solomon's giant captain, spied •*-' within the cave where the Servitor of the Lord of Earth had his lair. He saw him lying with his hair in...

The Legend of Ys (September 1925)

THE LEGEND OF YS By PADRAIC COLUM HpHEY said of Dahut that her mother was a woman ¦*¦ of the sea, and that the king, Dahut's father, had taken her from where he had found her seated on...

The Fountain of Youth (September 1925)

451 September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH By PADRAIC COLUM THERE was a land that was 300 miles away from Hispaniola . . . Bimini was the name of that land. Men...

The Name (March 1925)

THE COMMONWEAL March 4, 1915 way of thinking, he made but one mistake, which...

A Glimpse of Irish Cooperation (January 1925)

January at, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL z8~ A GLIMPSE OF IRISH...

Colum, Storey Padraic

Colvin, Frances

COMAN, WILSON R.

COMAS, ANDREW

Comfort, Alex

COMMINS, MARY G.

Compa, Lance

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