... early youth, he collected volumes of folk tales and wrote his own versions of the old legends. He also helped organize the Irish Literary Society in London and in Dublin. After some years of journalism and contributions to periodical, he became active in establishing the Irish National Theater and ... wrote and published, and expressed honest and often unpopular opinions on various issues of the day. He desired to raise national consciousness by cultural means. Irish rebellion of Easter, 1916, moved him deeply. In 1917, he married Georgie Hyde-Lees, who bore him a daughter and a son. In ...

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