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Hilary Pyle
Red-Headed
Rebel
Susan L. Mitchell
Poet and Mystic of the Irish Cultural Renaissance
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Titian-haired beauty, Susan L. Mitchell, described by W. B.
Yeats as 'the nearest approach they have to a true poet',
was friend of Lily Yeats, Seumas O'Sullivan and Constance
Markiewicz. Her name was linked in Dublin society with that
of painter and mystic, AE. Originally from
Carrick-on-Shannon and raised by her Unionist aunts in
Dublin, she rebelled against privileged society and the
Protestant Church in which she was reared.
By a trick of fate she exchanged life as a gentlewoman in
provincial Birr for that of journalist on Plunkett's
far-sighted publications, The Irish Homestead and
The Irish Statesman, at a time when Home Rule was
imminent. Objective despite her republican views,
contemporary politics and the literary world were lampooned
by her at enthusiastic gatherings of statesmen and fellow
writers.
Her life preceding her Republican renaissance, one of
privilege and stability, is now revealed through previously
unpublished correspondence and papers. Dublin in the
tumultuous years from Easter week 1916, the signing of the
Treaty and the Civil War, is seen through her eyes.
ISBN 0-9528453-7-7 Pbk IR; €16.50
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