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Padraic Colum (1881–1972)
Colum, Padraic. An Irish poet and playwright. His volume of poems ‘Wild Earth’ (1907), attempts to deal with elemental emotions and with peasants. Of his plays may be mentioned: ‘The Saxon Shilling’; ‘Broken Soil’ (later ‘The Fiddler’s House’); ‘The Miracle of the Corn’ (1904); ‘The Land’ (1905); ‘The Desert’ (1907); ‘Thomas Muskerry’; ‘The Destruction of the Hostel.’