"... a devout man with a great love of the earth. He has also a fine sense of the traditional ballad."
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Padraic Colum
(8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972), an Irishman who emigrated in 1914 to the United States, was a poet, playwright, folklorist, biographer, novelist, essayist, and author of children's books. He and his wife taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1939 to 1956.
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