According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Stephens'
...book, The Crock of Gold (1912), with its rich Celtic theme, ... established his fame. Like many of his contemporaries, Stephens was greatly affected by the Easter Rising (1916), a rebellion of Irish republicans against the British, and his book The Insurrection in Dublin (1916) remains a classic account.
That Insurrection happened 100 years ago this year. In Stephens' accoount, the damage extended beyond people and buildings:
The continuation of ...[the] story was less
gloomy although it affected the teller
equally.
"There is not," said she, "a cat or a
dog left alive in Camden Street. They
are lying stiff out in the road and up on
the roofs. There's lots of women will be
sorry for this war," said she, "and their
pets killed on them."
The Britannia article ends: "Stephens was active in the Irish nationalist movement, but by 1940 he was living in London, where he made frequent radio broadcasts until his death in 1950."
We'll end with this graphic, by Arthur Rackham for Stephens' Irish Fairy Tales (1920); the story titled "Mongan's Frenzy."

...book, The Crock of Gold (1912), with its rich Celtic theme, ... established his fame. Like many of his contemporaries, Stephens was greatly affected by the Easter Rising (1916), a rebellion of Irish republicans against the British, and his book The Insurrection in Dublin (1916) remains a classic account.
That Insurrection happened 100 years ago this year. In Stephens' accoount, the damage extended beyond people and buildings:
The continuation of ...[the] story was less
gloomy although it affected the teller
equally.
"There is not," said she, "a cat or a
dog left alive in Camden Street. They
are lying stiff out in the road and up on
the roofs. There's lots of women will be
sorry for this war," said she, "and their
pets killed on them."
The Britannia article ends: "Stephens was active in the Irish nationalist movement, but by 1940 he was living in London, where he made frequent radio broadcasts until his death in 1950."
We'll end with this graphic, by Arthur Rackham for Stephens' Irish Fairy Tales (1920); the story titled "Mongan's Frenzy."

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