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LEINSTER 21
The group of poets who succeeded Moore—writers
of the Young Ireland Movement in 1848 — find their
commemoration in the bust of James Clarence Mangan,
recently erected in Stephen's Green—almost as unob-
trusive as was in life that strange and unhappy genius.
To-day, as the world knows, we have poets neither
few nor unremarkable—Mr. Yeats chief among them;
and one of the intellectual landmarks of Dublin is the
Abbey Theatre, standing obscurely enough, but not
obscure in the world. Here have been produced the
poetical dramas of Mr. Yeats himself, the still more
notable prose dramas of Mr. Synge, together with much
work of Lady Gregory, William Boyle, Padraic Colum,
and many lesser names; and they have been produced
by a company of Irish actors—first formed by Mr. W.
G. Fay — who have displayed an amazing range of
talent. Any visitor to Dublin who cares for a beauty
and an interest wholly unlike that of the usual machinemade
play ought to try and see a performance at the
Abbey.
For the artistic life of Ireland— past, present, and
to come—Dublin is your only ground of study. Among
the things which every lover of Ireland should have
seen are two—the Book of Kells in the Trinity
College Library, the Cross of Cong in the Kildare
Street National Museum. The craftsmanship of art
was never carried to a higher point than in the