{"product_id":"mary-padraic-colum-lives-and-the-dream","title":"Mary \u0026 Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThis is the first joint biography of writers Mary and Padraic Colum, written by Margaret Kelleher, author of the prize-winning \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMaamtrasna\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMurders\u003c\/em\u003e (also from UCD Press). Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a poet, playwright and essayist, and like Mary a political activist. But now, in the histories of Irish literature and of New York literary circles, Mary and Padraic Colum are unjustly forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eDrawing from a wealth of previously unknown archival materials, this work provides a close-up study of a writing couple whose literary lives and legacy spanned decades and continents. It follows their journeys from rural Ireland to literary Dublin, to the hotbed intellectual and literary life of wartime and peacetime New York, and James Joyce’s émigré circle in 1930s Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMary and Padraic Colum\u003c\/em\u003e is a chronicle of quiet friendship, romantic bonds, a longstanding marriage, and a fruitful intellectual partnership. The first joint biography of the Colums, it is a story of lives and dreams that deserves to be heard and celebrated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UCD Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254063190344,"sku":"9781068502385","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/9475\/3259\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-08at16.36.42.png?v=1791473841","url":"https:\/\/shop.moli.ie\/products\/mary-padraic-colum-lives-and-the-dream","provider":"MoLI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}