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O'Grady was born on September 18, 1846 in Castletown, Ireland. His father was the Reverend Thomas O'Grady, the scholarly Church of Ireland minister of Castletown Berehaven, County Cork, and his mother - Susanna Doe (or Dowe).
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"The Coming of Cuculain" from Standish James O'Grady. Irish author, journalist, and historian (1846-1928).
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O'Grady was born on September 18, 1846 in Castletown, Ireland. His father was the Reverend Thomas O'Grady, the scholarly Church of Ireland minister of Castletown Berehaven, County Cork, and his mother - Susanna Doe (or Dowe).
O'Grady was educated at Trinity College in Dublin. He graduated from it in 1868 with a bachelor's degree.
O'Grady developed a strong interest in Irish antiquities. As a result of this interest he began the first volume of his History of Ireland: Heroic Period (1878) which he published at his own expense. With the second volume, subtitled Cuculain and His Contemporaries (1880), the work came to be known as the Bardic History, and since it dealt with the then little known Irish epic cycle, it turned Irish literary attention to the nation's romantic past. For this reason, O'Grady is credited with beginning the Irish literary renaissance.
In 1869 he read O'Halloran’s History of Ireland and was subsequently inspired to preserve the ancient legends by reintroducing them to modern readers. O’Grady wrote History of Ireland: The Heroic Period in 1878 and the companion volume, History of Ireland: Cuculain and His Contemporaries, two years later. Together these works formed a catalyst for the Irish Literary Renaissance, which encompassed such events as the founding of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and included such notable participants as the poet W. B. Yeats and the playwright J. M. Synge, among others.
In addition to compiling Gaelic legends, O’Grady eventually reworked several of the tales as historical novels set either in the heroic age or in Elizabethan Ireland.
A third group of O’Grady’s writings focuses on contemporary politics and social issues. Although he did not speak Gaelic, O’Grady promoted Irish arts through his publication the All Ireland Review and as the owner and editor of the Kilkenny Moderator. His most significant political essay, Toryism and the Tory Democracy (1886), called for cooperation between tenants and land owners to revitalize the Irish economy, a collaboration that to O’Grady’s disappointment was not forthcoming.
However, O’Grady’s significance in Irish literature rests primarily on his popularization of the ancient texts and the extent to which his works inspired Irish writers to draw on the mythic history of Ireland forging a national identity through literature at a time when political nationalism was at the forefront of Irish social life.
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(Cuculian, "The Hound of Ulster," is the champion of Irela...)
("The Coming of Cuculain" from Standish James O'Grady. Iri...)
(Edward A. Hagan describes O'Grady as ""at once a politica...)
O'Grady was much proud of his family's Unionism and Protestantism.
A writer identified as “A. E.” noted that “O’Grady’s finest achievement has been to rescue for us the great pagan virtues and to bring them with a living force into modern Ireland.”
O'Grady married Margaret Fisher and had three sons.
