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Lyric Theatre, Dublin
The Lyric Theatre grew out of Austin Clarke's Dublin Verse Speaking Society. It is no longer operating. References *Igoe, Vivien. ''A Literary Guide to Dublin''. (Methuen, 1994) *Ryan, Philip B. ''The Lost Theatres of Dublin''. (The Badger Press, 1998) Theatres in Dublin (city) {{ireland-struct-stub ...
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Austin Clarke (poet)
Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistín Ó Cléirigh) (9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English. Effectively, this meant writing English verse based not so much on metre as on complex patterns of assonance, consonance, and half rhyme. Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said "I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free." Early career Clarke's early poetry clearly shows the influence of Yeats. His first book, ''The Vengeance of Fionn'', was a long narrative poem retelling an Ossianic legend. It met with critical acclaim and, unusually for a first book of poetry, went to a second edition. Between this and the 1938 volume ''Night and Morning'', Clarke publ ...
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