1903 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • January - An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, is established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.
  • 8 October - First performance of a play by J. M. Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen, at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
  • Padraic Colum's Broken Soil is performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.
  • 'Æ' (George William Russell)'s The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new is published by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press at Dundrum, Dublin.
  • W. B. Yeats's In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age (including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass") is published by his sister's Dun Emer Press; he also publishes his essays Ideas of Good and Evil.

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