HE CELTIC RENAISSANCE 1

II. THE PLAYERS AND THEIR PLAYS,
THEIR AUDIENCE AND THEIR ART 13

III. MR. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 37

IV. MR. EDWARD MARTYN AND MR. GEORGE MOORE 72

V. MR. GEORGE W. RUSSELL ("A.E.") 114

VI. LADY GREGORY 138

VII. JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE 160

VIII. THE YOUNGER DRAMATISTS--MR. PADRAIC COLUM;
MR. WILLIAM BOYLE; MR. T.C. MURRAY;
MR. S. LENNOX ROBINSON; MR. RUTHERFORD MAYNE;
"NORREYS CONNELL"; MR. ST. JOHN G. ERVINE;
MR. JOSEPH CAMPBELL 198

IX. WILLIAM SHARP ("FIONA MACLEOD") 251

APPENDIX 297
PLAYS PRODUCED, IN DUBLIN,
BY THE ABBEY THEATRE COMPANY

INDEX 305

ILLUSTRATIONS

W.B. YEATS _Frontispiece_
_From a photograph by Alice Boughton_.

DOUGLAS HYDE 10
_From a photograph by Alice Boughton_.

SARA ALLGOOD 24
_From a photograph by Alice Boughton_.

SCENE FROM "CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN" 50

GEORGE MOORE 72
_Reproduced by courtesy of John Quinn, Esq._

GEORGE W. RUSSELL 114

LADY GREGORY 138

JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE 160
_Reproduced by courtesy of John Quinn, Esq._

PADRAIC COLUM 198
_Reproduced by courtesy of John Quinn, Esq._

T.C. MURRAY 216

LENNOX ROBINSON 222
_From a photograph by Alice Boughton_.

WILLIAM SHARP 250

IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS

CHAPTER I

THE CELTIC RENAISSANCE

To the general reader the Celtic Renaissance was a surprise, and even to
Irish writers deeply interested in their country the phenomenon or
movement, call it which you will, was not