Padraic Colum

              LEE KEEDICK presents
PADRAIC COLUM
Distinguished Irish Poet, Dramatist and Classical Writer
Author of Castle Conquer, Wild Earth, Dramatic Legends, The Children's Homer, The Golden Fleece, The King of Ireland's Son Mogu the Wanderer


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An Irish Literary Genius
PADRAIC COLUM, the versatile Irish author, whose genius has placed him in the front ranks of modern writers, has arranged to re-enter the lecture field this season, when he will speak on the following subjects:

A Poet in Polynesia.  Mr. Colum, in this lecture, will give an entertaining account of his researches into the folk lore of the Hawaiian Islands, for which he was commissioned by the Hawaiian Government.

Literary Reminiscences of Europe and America.  Mr. Colum knows personally most of the leading writers of Ireland, England and America, and has lived in close association with them.

The Irish Free State—based on recent observations in Ireland and personal contact with most of the Irish leaders.

Contemporary Poetry—with readings from his own verse.

Story Telling, for the young and ever young.



A Brilliant Literary Career
Mr. Colum became a writer in his early youth, when his first poems and essays appeared in a magazine that Arthur Griffith was conducting.  Later, he joined the national theatre movement in Dublin, his plays having been among the first produced by the Irish theatre.  Before he was thirty he won recognition as a writer of marked genuis.  To-day, Mr. Colum is widely known as a contributor to the leading English and American magazines, while he also attracted world-wide attention by his delightful books, each of which is distinguished by remarkable diction and striking originality.



Author of Notable Books
Among the books that have made Mr. Colum famous are the following: Castle Conquer, dealing humorously and pathetically with Irish peasant life, two volumes of splendid verse, and a series of fascinating classics for children, including The Children's Homer, The Golden Fleece, The Children of Odin, The King of Ireland's Son, Mogu the Wanderer, The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said, and The Children Who Followed the Piper.




A Gifted Writer
Mr. Colum is a native of Longford, Ireland, the county of Oliver Goldsmith, and like that master writer, he has touched nothing that he has not adorned.  From a purely literary standpoint, Mr. Colum's prose works constitute one of the greatest achievements of modern times.  His stories of Irish life, and those derived from Irish folk lore, are singularly moving, and they have all the vitality and vibration of works of art.  As a dramatist, Mr. Colum ranks with Synge in interpreting the every-day life of Ireland, and in depicting the Irish peasant as he really is.  Mr. Colum's poetry also reveals qualities of the highest type.  Of his verse it has been said that soil underlies it and grey Irish skies droop over it; pools glimmer like opals and the voices of birds are sharp on the road.  In glowing simplicity of diction, rhythmic and intimate, Mr. Colum excels.  He has been equally successful in writing fairy stories for children, and in arousing their interest in the classic legends of old.



Wins Unstinted Praise
Mr. Colum has been the subject of many enthusiastic tributes published in the leading American newspapers and magazines.  His genius as a descriptive writer, a poet, and a writer of stories for children has been widely recognized.  In an article which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, William Stanley Braithwaite said: Mr. Colum, in his re-telling of national myths and legends, has shown a genius that is as surprising as it is unequalled among modern writers. Similar praise was awarded by the Chicago Evening Post in reviewing Mr. Colum's work, The Children of Odin, one of his classics for the young.  From a purely literary standpoint, said the Post, Mr. Colum is to be congratulated upon a sterling literary achievement.  He has done a piece of work which only those not initiated will suppose easy.  It is the sort of thing which only a man of the soundest literary judgment and classic taste could have done, and then only if he were in addition what Mr. Colum is—pre-eminently a creative artist in language.



Success As A Lecturer
In recent years, Mr. Colum has met with pronounced success as a lecturer in this country, and has delighted many large audiences by his charm as a speaker, his versatility, and the profound interest that he imparts to every subject he discusses.  His reading of his own verse amounts to an art in itself.  On this account, Mr. Colum's lectures are regarded as notable features in the yearly programs of many
 important colleges and clubs.  During one of his recent tours, Dr. Samm, the well-known Southern educator, wrote an article for the leading newspaper of Columbia, S. C., The State, which contained the following opinion: Padraic Colum's presence is singularly striking and arresting.  Manifestly, from the first glance, a man and a mind of considerable distinction and power.  And his manner of speech confirms the first impression.  His voice is an almost perfect instrument, and adds to the effect of his poetry.




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Padraic Colum's BOOKS
Poetry, Epics, Fiction and Folk Romance


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NEW BOOKS, 1924:
THE ISLAND OF THE MIGHTY.  Hero Stories of Celtic Britain retold from the Mabinogion, $2.25


Not children alone, but their elders as well, owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Colum for this new version of the famous hero stories of Celtic Britain.  Surely here is the perfect welding of interpreter with context—the proper poetic imagination to extract from the tales of the Mabinogion the buoyant beauty that, as Mr. Colum himself says, has hitherto been clouded by difficulties of nomenclature and arrangement.—
Amy Loveman in The Saturday Review.


A story teller of rare charm has recreated the strength and thrill of that great story book of the 14th century.—
Lenore Power in The Outlook.


It is a delight to read to a child any book which makes him so open-mouthed with pleasure as this.—
Dorothy Canfield Fisher.



THE PEEP SHOW MAN (Little Library Series)
$1.00




It has all of Colum's music and charm coupled with that simplicity of telling that goes to the making of the perfect fairy tale.  There are charming illustrations, too, with a rare sympathy with the text.—
Providence Journal.



FICTION AND POETRY:


CASTLE CONQUER. A novel of Ireland
$2.00


WILD EARTH (Early Poems)
$1.50


DRAMATIC LEGENDS AND OTHER POEMS
$ .75





EPICS RETOLD:


THE CHILDREN'S HOMER.  The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
$2.00


THE GOLDEN FLEECE: and The Heroes Who Came Before Achilles
$2.25


THE CHILDREN OF ODIN: Norse Myths
$2.00





FOLK ROMANCE AND FAIRY TALE:


The King of Ireland's Son
$2.00


The Children Who Followed The Piper
$1.75


The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said
$1.75


The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
$1.75


The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
$1.75



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