MacDonagh’s “Lyrical Poems,” and they were both keenly interested in the printing and form of the book. He also published P. H. Pearse’s “Suantraidhe agus Goltraidhe.”
The Irish Theatre was started in 1914 by a partnership consisting of Edward Martyn, Thomas MacDonagh and my brother. Its purpose, as opposed to the purpose of the Abbey Theatre, was to produce Irish plays other than peasant plays, plays in Irish, and foreign masterpieces. They played periodically in Hardwicke St., and produced plays by Edward Martyn, Eimar O'Duffy, John MacDonagh, Tchekoff, etc., and have been on the whole very successful in carrying out their objects. Towards the last six months my brother disagreed with the other directors for not abiding by the spirit of the agreement and definitely dissociated himself from the Theatre on the production of Strindberg’s “Easter.” The Irish Theatre is still in existence and is being carried on by Mr. Martyn and Mr. John MacDonagh.
The first section of this volume—“Occulta”—was to have been my brother’s next book. He arranged it himself in the order in which it now stands, wherein the sequence of thought is unbroken. I have gathered together in the second part his later verse and those earlier poems which he would have considered worthy of republication, including those from the “Circle and the Sword.” Many of his poems have been destroyed, or at any rate
