1886 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • December - W. B. Yeats poem The Stolen Child is published.
  • Yeats's verse play Mosada
  • Edward Dowden's The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley is published.
  • George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man and A Drama in Muslin are published.
  • Emily Lawless's Hurrish is published.
  • T. P. O'Connor's The Parnell Movement is published.
  • Dublin University professor G.T. Stokes' Ireland and the Celtic Church is published.
  • Rev. J. A. Wylie's History of the Scottish Nation, a valuable resource of Celtic Ireland, begins publication.
  • Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society is founded.

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