Padraic Colum Colum started to write and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Æ. He also joined the Gaelic League and was a member of the first board of the Abbey Theatre. He became a regular user of the National Library of Ireland, where he met James Joyce and the two became lifelong friends. During the riots caused by the Abbey Theatre's production of "The Playboy of the Western World", Padraic Colum's father, Patrick Columb, was one of the protestors. Padraic himself was not engaged in the protests, although he
Padraic Colum the notebooks, manuscripts, galley proofs, and letters that were in his apartments in New York and Dublin to the Binghamton University Libraries. He wished to make whatever resources he could available to scholars of Irish literature and history. Asked how to say his name, he told "The Literary Digest" the last name was the same as the word "column". "In my first name, the first "a" has the sound of "au". The ordinary pronunciation in Irish is "pau'drig"." As screenwriter: As editor: Print Online Padraic Colum Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist,