The Life and Times of Edward Martyn - Humphreys, Madeleine
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The Palestrina Choir, the Irish Literary Theatre, An Tur Gloinne, the decorative art of Loughrea Cathedral, and the Hardwicke Street Theatre all have their genesis in the vision of one man - Edward Martyn. A great patron of the arts, Martyn was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, and the first president of Sinn Fein. This biography places him in the cultural renaissance that evolved throughout his life (1859-1923) in Ireland. Brought up in south Galway to be a conservative Catholic landlord, and educated at Oxford, Martyn lived most of his life as a bohemian. He published a utopian novel…mehr

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The Palestrina Choir, the Irish Literary Theatre, An Tur Gloinne, the decorative art of Loughrea Cathedral, and the Hardwicke Street Theatre all have their genesis in the vision of one man - Edward Martyn. A great patron of the arts, Martyn was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, and the first president of Sinn Fein. This biography places him in the cultural renaissance that evolved throughout his life (1859-1923) in Ireland. Brought up in south Galway to be a conservative Catholic landlord, and educated at Oxford, Martyn lived most of his life as a bohemian. He published a utopian novel in 1890, and wrote plays for the next thirty years. His Heather Field opened the second night of the Irish Literary Theatre, which he founded in 1899 with W. B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory. He often dreamed of a great choir for Dublin. When he found Vincent O'Brien producing Missa Papae Marcelli in the Caremelite Church in Clarendon Street, Dublin, he set about turning the dream into reality. This w
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