Edward Martyn
Edward Martyn (born January 30, 1859 in Tullira , County Galway , † December 5, 1923 ibid) was an Irish playwright and politician of the Sinn Féin .
Life
Martyn wrote several dramas inspired by Henrik Ibsen and George Moore . He was a neighbor of Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory and introduced her to William Butler Yeats at his home in Tullira . His house in Tullira on the Doorus Peninsula became, alongside that of his cousin Florimond de Basterot , the leading place of the literary movement and ultimately also of the nationalist movement in Ireland in the 1890s .
In 1899 he founded the Irish Literary Theater with Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats . From this project, the Abbey Theater , the Irish national theater , emerged in 1904 . A few years later he was one of the leading figures of the literary circle in Dunguaire Castle , in which in 1904 Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw , John Millington Synge and Oliver St. John Gogarty also took part.
Shortly afterwards, he began to be politically active and, after it was founded on November 28, 1905, was the first chairman of Sinn Féin between 1905 and 1908.
Individual evidence
- ^ Terence Brown: The Life of WB Yeats. A Critical Biography , Oxford 1999, 2001, Blackwell Publishers, pp. 120ff, 153ff.
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Edward Martyn in the catalog of the German National Library
- MEYERS GROSSES PERSONENLEXIKON , Mannheim 1968, p. 863
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martyn, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tullira , County Galway |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1923 |
| Place of death | Tullira , County Galway |