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Diarmuid and Grania is a play in poetic prose co-written by George Moore and W. B. Yeats in 1901, with incidental music by the English composer Edward Elgar. Play
Diarmuid and Grania is a 1901 play in poetic prose by George Moore and W. B. Yeats, based on the translation of the tale by Lady Gregory, with incidental music by Edward Elgar. Tóruigheact Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne was translated by Nessa Ní Shéaghda in 1967 and used in schools for study in Irish literature.
In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, Gráinne was promised in marriage to Fionn but, repulsed by his age, she forms a relationship with Diarmuid at their betrothal party. At first he refuses out of loyalty to Fionn but she places a geis upon him to run away with her. Their long flight from Fionn is aided by Diarmuid's foster-father Aengus Óg.
Diarmuid and Grania: A Play in Three Acts Co-written with W. B. Yeats, Edited by Anthony Farrow, Chicago: De Paul, 1974; Letters. Moore Versus Harris Detroit: privately printed, 1921; Letters from George Moore to Ed. Dujardin 1886-1922 New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929; Letters of George Moore Bournemouth: Sydenham, 1942; GM: Memories of George ...
Diarmuid and Gráinne: Genre: Romance, tragedy: Setting: Almhuin, Ancient Ireland: Grania is a play written by Lady Gregory in 1912. [1] [2] [3] [4]
”There are seven that pull the thread” is a song with words by W. B. Yeats, and music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901. The song is from Act I of a play Grania and Diarmid co-written in poetic prose by Yeats and the Irish novelist George Moore.
Diarmuid is best known as the lover of Gráinne, the intended wife of Fianna leader Fionn mac Cumhaill in the legend The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne. Among his sons were Donnchadh, Iollann, Ruchladh and Ioruad. [5] Diarmuid Ua Duibhne is said to be the founder of the Scottish Clan Campbell. On the Campbell crest is a boar's head, a ...
Diarmuid and Grania, a poetic play in prose co-written with Yeats in 1901, was also staged by the theatre, [27] with incidental music by Elgar. [28] After this production Moore took up pamphleteering on behalf of the Abbey, and parted company with the dramatic movement. [26]