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About 1906 a small group of people in Dublin came to a decision that there was room for a club which should bring together those interested in Art—using the word ‘art’ in a wide sense. In actual fact the main spirits in this venture were not artists.
Extracted from The Dublin of Yesterday (London: Methuen, 1929) pp. 53–5.
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Countess Constance Georgine de Markievicz (t876— tg27), Irish politician who joined the Sinn Fein movement and became a noted orator and leader. She was sentenced to death for being involved in the Easter Rising, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Mter the Amnesty (1917) she was released. Yeats’s ‘On a Political Prisoner’ (Michael Robartes and the Dancer) deals with her. See Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz. With a preface by President de Valera (London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1934); A. A. —T. Marreco, The Rebel Countess (London: Weidenfeld, 1967)
J. Van Voris, Constance de Markievicz in The Cause of Ireland (Amherst Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1967).
John Sparrow (1906—), author of Sense and Poetry (London: Constable, 1934), which makes several references to Yeats, Half-Lines and Repetitions in Virgil (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931), and Poems in Latin (London: Oxford University Press, tg¢t).
Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917—), at present Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in the Irish Government, joined the Department of External Affairs in tg¢q., became Counsellor to the Irish Embassy in Paris (t955–6), a member of the Irish delegation to the United Nations (1955–60) and an Assistant Secretary of the Department of External Affairs (tg60). He was chosen by Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953–61), as UN representative in Katanga in 1961, at the height of the Congo crisis. After getting involved in the fighting with the Tschombe forces he resigned from the United Nations and from the Irish Civil Service in 196 t. He published his account of this episode in To Katanga & Back (tg62); became Vice-Chancellor of Ghana University under Nkrumah (tg62–5) and Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities in New York University. O’Brien first achieved notice with Maria Cross (1953), a collection of essays on Catholic writers, under the pseudonym Donat O’Donnell. His other works include Parnell and His Party (1957) and Writers and Politics (1965). See Elisabeth Young Bruehl and Robert Hogan, Conor Cruise O’Brien: An Appraisal (Newark, Delaware: Procenium Press, 1974).
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Dickinson, P.L. (1977). Yeats at the Arts Club. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02992-1_18
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