Dermot A. MacManus Papers.

This collection comprises of material relating to Dermot A. MacManus and members of his family including his mother Julia Emily MacManus (née Boyd), his father Leonard Strong MacManus, and his sisters, as well as containing material relating to W.B. Yeats. The collection consists of diaries, letters, typescripts, and other ephemera.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: MacManus, Diarmuid A.
Contributors: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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Notes:Dermot A [Arthur Maurice] MacManus; brought up in Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo; was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, c.1910; influenced by George [“Æ”] Russell, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge; served in India before the war and was seriously wounded at the Gallipoli and invalided out of the Army as a Captain in 1919; entered Trinity College Dublin as a mature student; He wrote to Michael Collins expressing support and was arrested by British authorities, being incarcerated in Dublin Castle; released and went to work with “Ginger” O’Connell in Cathal Brugha’s office on the quays; placed on Auxiliaries’ murder list; saw Irish Republican Army service in Tipperary with Michael Brennan and Ernie O’Malley as “Dermot Burke”; accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty; appt. Director of Training of Guards under Collins, in succession to Gen. Dalton; commanded the Portobello Barracks, where he suppressed a mutiny of irregular officers; involved in the assault on the Four Courts, June-July 1922 - attacking from the South [Phoenix Park] while Patrick O’Connor attacked from the west; ranked as General MacManus, he commanded two small ships on a mission to take Kenmare from the sea, 10 Aug. 1922; He acted as review editor of the Irish Statesman (ed. Russell) in the early 1920-26, and met W. B. Yeats; instrumental in introducing Yeats to General O’Duffy of the Blueshirts; held long-term office as Treasurer of the Arts Club in Fitzwilliam St.; moved to Woodville, Co. Longford, by 1931, and later to Harrogate in England, c.1957 - an ‘exile’ from Ireland in his own words; annual visitor during his lifetime; issued The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland (1959), a compendium of Irish fairy customs and traditions; he delivered a paper on the Irish Literary Revival to the Harrogate Literary Society, in 1965; interviewed by BBC at home in Harrogate as being the last surviving friend of Yeats, summer 1973; d. at Harrogate, circa 1990.

Physical description: 1 box and 16 volumes

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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Dermot A. MacManus Papers
Language:English
Extent:1 item.
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 42,463/16 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.