Geraldine Plunkett Dillon's "Magnificat" (Published by The Candle Press, Dublin, 1917) Available online at The Internet Archive in [PDF/ DAISY, EPUB, KINDLE] formats
Open Access URL: https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala/page/n6
The text of Magnificat and images associated with Geraldine Plunkett’s Dillon’s historical and cultural work were kindly sent to me by her great-granddaughter Isolde Carmody and I am very grateful for them. I am delighted to add Geraldine to my indices at Poethead. I hope that this page will increase interest in her work. Excerpts from the Preface to the 2nd edition of All In The Blood, memoirs of Geraldine Plunkett Dillon, edited by Honor ÓBrolcháin,
“My greatest regret throughout the process has been how little credit she gives herself, for example she does not mention a paper she gave in the Royal Irish Academy in 1916 or her contribution to the article on dyes in Encyclopedia Britannica or her volume of poetry, Magnificat, or contributing to the Book of St Ultan, or being a founder member of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe (the masks of Tragedy and Comedy she made for the Gate theatre are now on a wall in the Taibhdhearc) and the Galway Art Club, where she exhibited for years, or making costumes for Micheál Mac Liammóir in 1928, or being responsible for Oisín Kelly deciding to become a sculptor – he was one of very many who said that she enabled them to do the right thing for their own fulfillment. When she wrote it was in order to provide a history of her times and an insight into what made her family so strange. Like many of her generation she did not write much about her own feelings and her humourous and optimistic nature does not really come through in her writing. I would like to have been able to put that in but could not in all faith do so. “ It is also worth noting that Joe (Joseph Plunkett) named her as literary executor, and she edited his Collected Poems in 1916
Internet Archive URL: https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala/page/n6
Poethead URL: https://poethead.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/magnificat-1917-by-geraldine-plunkett-dillon/
Internet Archive image of the frontispiece of Plunkett Dillon's "Magnificat"
Geraldine Plunkett Dillon' "Magnificat"
Published The Candle Press, Dublin, 1917
The Internet Archive [PDF/ DAISY, EPUB, KINDLE] formats
Open Access URL: https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala/page/n6
Keywords Pamphlets, Irish Women Poets, Irish Writing, The Internet Archive, Geraldine Plunkett Dillon, The Candle Press, Dublin, 1917
Digitised version of the 1917 MSS
Internet Archive URL: https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala (ISSUU)
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Out of copyright, published 1917 / open access via The Internet Archive
C. Murray, curator of http://poethead.wordpress.com has copyright permission for online dissemination of "Magnificat" via Isolde Carmody (Family Member Of Geraldine Plunkett Dillon)
