Tree Art by Lisa Marie Peaslee 2

TreeTre Arte Arbyt: LLisisa a MarMarieie P Peasleeasleee

SHORT BIO:

Born Patrick Collumb, in Longford, in Co. Longford, in Ireland, poet, editor, children’s writer, folklorist and playwright Padraic Colum was the oldest of eight siblings. At 17, he took a job as a clerk for the Irish Railway Clearing House and began to write seriously; he had joined the Irish Republican Army and the Gaelic League and taken the name Padraic Colum by the time he was 20. Living in Dublin during the Celtic Revival and a member of both the National Theatre Society and the Abbey Theatre, he met and became close friends with writers James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and George Russell. With James Stephens and Thomas MacDonagh, Colum founded the Irish Review.