#Padraic Colum

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

I found this week's Publishers' Binding Thursday selection while simply browsing the stacks. I noticed the spine first, and when I pulled the book out saw the three, bright, galloping horses on the cover. The book is The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Irish poet, author and folklore collector Padraic Colum (1881-1972). It was published by the Macmillan Company in 1920 with illustrations by American illustrator Dugald Stewart Walker (1883-1937). This book is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection of children's books.

The cover is a cream bookcloth with blue, yellow, and black color stamping. A white horse, a yellow horse, and a black horse rear up as a cloud of dust rises behind them on a blue background. The title is in a cream banner at the top and is stamped in yellow with a black outline. The title, author's name, and illustrator's name are stamped on the spine, with the publisher stamped at the bottom.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Odysseus Victorious Over the Suitors of His Wife, illustration by Willy Pogany for Padraic Colum’s The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (1918)

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"When the King of the Cats Came to King Connal's Dominion" is available to read here

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#OTD in 1913 – Also known as “The Great Dublin Lockout”, the Dublin Transport Strike, led by Jim Larkin and James Connolly, begins.

The Great Dublin Lockout starts and one of the most bitter and divisive labour disputes in Irish history will run until February 1914 when starving workers are forced back to work. Five years previously, in 1908, at a time when Irish labourers were working in atrocious conditions, Union organiser Big Jim Larkin founded the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU). The 1913 Lockout…

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Credit to @thechestnuthead for tracking down the following info on this.:

It's an illustration by Willy Pogany of The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles by Padraic Colum

https://archive.org/details/goldenfleeceandh00colurich/mode/1up

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An Old Woman of the Roads, Padraic Colum

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The Old Woman of the Roads -- Padraic Colum

O, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall!

To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down! A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!

I could be busy all the day Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor And fixing on their shelf again My white and blue and speckled store!

I could be quiet there at night, Beside the fire and by myself, Sure of a bed; and loth to leave The ticking clock and the shining delph!

Oh! but I'm weary of mist and dark, And roads where there's never a house or bush, And tired I am of the bog, and the road, And the crying wind and the lonesome hush!

And I am praying to God on high, And I am praying Him night and day, For a little house--a house of my own-- Out of the wind's and the rain's way.

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Illustrations from Padraic Colum's The Children of Odin by Willy Pogany (1920)

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The Six Who Were Left in a Shoe - Padraic Colum, Dugald Stewart Walker, ill. - 1923 - via Internet Archive

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"Then he came from where he was hiding and gave her the swanskin."

"King of Ireland's son returns the swanskin of Fedelma the youngest daughter of the Enchanter, as the three daughters were wading in the lake."

Padraic Colum's book "The King of Ireland's Son" ~ 1916 ~ Willy Pogny (Hungarian illustrator, 1882-1955)

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Dugald Stewart Walker, illustration for 'The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes' by Padraic Colum, 1919

Via: https://www.instagram.com/p/DA3otjqIody/

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF

Ukrainian American illustrator and wood engraver Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) produced twenty wood engravings to illustrate Orpheus: Myths of the World by Irish author and folklorist Padraic Colum (1881-1972), published in New York by the Macmillan Company in 1930. We show half of those engravings here which display Artzybasheff's distinctive bold forms and labyrinthine compositions. In this book, Colum brings together 58 related myths and legends from a wide range of world cultures, from the myths of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome to those of India, Japan, Polynesia, and the Indigenous western hemisphere.

Our copy of this book  is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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From The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum, 1918.

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#OTD in 1972 – Death of Longford poet and playwright, Padraic Colum. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival.

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival. Colum wrote and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Æ. He also joined the Gaelic League and was a member of the first board of the Abbey Theatre. He became a regular user of the National…

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The King of Ireland's Son

This is a lovely collection of children’s tales collected and interpreted by Padraic Colum which he first published in 1916. It is very much like a continuous poem using some brilliant characters from many a traditional tale told around the hearth. A charming narrative dedicated to Padraic’s beloved Ireland. Amazon/Audible • iTunes

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On Shrove-Tuesday Cakes

I do not know what ingredients should go into a cake, or how these ingredients should be combined, or how the combination should be baked. But I know the temper in which cakes should be made. The temper should be that of affection and light-heartedness. Soups can be made by slaves. Meats may be cooked by mockers and salads mixed by suspicious, cross-eyed servitors. Fish and fowl can be prepared by fleshly men sunk in infamies. But cakes can only be made by the candid-eyed. Everyone knows that Cinderella could make cakes and that her jealous half-sisters couldn't, and it is clear to Shakespearian scholars that Cordelia would have been a cake-maker.

"I offer you cakes and friendship," said a remarkable lady to me once. She, being the most experienced lady in Dublin, knew that these went together. I cherish her friendship still and I have happy memories of her cakes. And I have happy memories, too, of the cakes of another lady who not only serves them but makes them—Mrs. Vaughn Moody. I have sat in her house with Rabindranath Tagore, both of us eating her cakes while we agreed that neither in the East nor the West were there cakes that more closely approached the ideal cake. Hers are cakes (or should we call them cates?) such as the Queen of Sheba gave Solomon when full of friendship for him.

“On Cakes: The Food of Friendship”, Padraic Colum (1931) for Commonweal Magazine