Ella Young

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Ella Young (born December 26, 1867 in Fenagh , County Leitrim , Ireland , † 1956 in Oceano , San Luis Obispo County , California ) was an Irish author , theosophist and freedom fighter .

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Young was born on December 26, 1867, in Fenagh, northwest Ireland. In 1871 the family moved to Limerick in the southwest of the island. Ella Young studied economics, history and law at the Royal University of Ireland in Dublin . There she came into contact with a number of painters, poets, actors and writers of the so-called Irish Renaissance around 1890 , including William Butler Yeats , George William Russell and Kenneth Morris . Like this she joined the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society and later became a member of the Hermetic Society . After graduation, she lived in the west of Ireland and on the Aran Islands , where she studied early Irish history and the Irish language .

In 1912 she joined the republican party Sinn Féin and in 1914 co-founded the paramilitary Cumann na mBan , the feminist offshoot of the Irish Volunteers . She smuggled arms during the Irish War of Independence and fought on the Republican side in the Irish Civil War . Therefore, she was imprisoned by the Irish Free State until 1925 in 1923 . After her release, she emigrated to the USA, where she received a lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley on Celtic mythology and folklore. She taught here until around 1935. In the early 1930s, she received US citizenship. She lived in California until her death in 1956.

Young authored a number of works on Irish mythology, fables and children's stories.

Works (selection)

  • To the little princess, an epistle. Johnck and Seeger, San Francisco 1930.
  • The tangled-coated horse and other tales. Floris Books, Edinburgh 1991, ISBN 0863155170 .
  • Celtic mythology. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88069-181-9 .
  • Celtic sagas. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88069-183-5 .
  • Celtic wonder tales and other stories. Floris Books, Edinburgh 2001, ISBN 086315350X .

literature

  • Padraic Colum : Ella Young, An appreciation. Longmans, Green & company, London 1931.

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personal data
SURNAME Young, Ella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author, theosophist and freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Fenagh , County Leitrim , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH 1956
Place of death Oceano , San Luis Obispo County , California