Who is Seumas O'sullivan

Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan (born James Sullivan Starkey; 17 July 1879 – 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. His father, William Starkey (1836-1918), a physician, was also a poet and a friend of George Sigerson. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar. In 1926, he married the artist Estella Solomons, sister of Bethel Solomons. Her parents were opposed to the marriage as Seumas was not Jewish.His books include Twilight People (1905), Verses Sacred and Profane (1908), The Earth Lover (1909), Selected Lyrics (1910), Collected Poems (1912), Requiem (1917), Common Adventures (1926), The Lamplighter (1929), Personal Talk (1936), Poems (1938), Collected Poems (1940), and Dublin Poems (1946). Terence de Vere White praised him as "a...
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Seumas O'sullivan Poems

  • The Starling Lake
    My sorrow that I am not by the little dún
    By the lake of the starlings at Rosses under the hill,
    And the larks there, singing over the fields of dew,
    Or evening there and the sedges still....
  • The Sedges
    I whispered my great sorrow
    To every listening sedge;
    And they bent, bowed with my sorrow,
    Down to the water's edge....
  • The Others
    From our hidden places
    By a secret path,
    We come in the moonlight
    To the side of the green rath....
  • The Half Door
    Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear they shone
    A moment's space;
    And wandering under the white stars I had gone
    In a strange place....
  • Lament For Sean Macdermott
    They have slain you, Sean MacDermott; never more these eyes will greet
    The eyes beloved by women, and the smile that true men loved;
    Never more I'll hear the stick-tap, and the gay and limping feet,
    They have slain you, Sean the Gentle, Sean the valiant, Sean the proved....
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Great 2 Sorrow 2 Never 2 Quiet 2 Strange 2 Wise 2 Brave 2 Doubt 1 Forever 1 Space 1


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Ngireland: image credits: portrait of james sullivan starkey (seumas o'sullivan 1879-1958) ©the trustees of the estate of estella solomons. photograph of estella solomons in her studio. both images courtesy of the board of trinity college dublin.
Ngireland: solomons' studio became a place of refuge for many war of independence revolutionaries, several of whom sat for her. she had to destroy many of the portraits to avoid incriminating the sitters. this portrait of her husband, seumas o’sullivan, happily did not meet that fate.
Thehughlane: a week's worth of watercolours... the others, harry clarke, 1927. inspired by: from the others by seumas o'sullivan "and now they pause in their dancing and look with troubled eyes, earth's straying children with sudden memory wise."
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