Darrell Figgis (1882 - 1925) was an Irish writer and Sinn Fein activist.
He was born in India,and as a young man worked in London. He moved back to Achill Island in 1913, to write.
He was deeply implicated in the Kilcoole gun-running of 1914 by Irish Republicans. He with Roger Casement and Eoin MacNeill conspired to buy rifles in Germany. He travelled with Robert Erskine Childers to Belgium to make the purchase, and chartered a tug. In July, the guns were transferred to yachts sailed by Childers and Conor O'Brien , and then landed in Howth, Dublin. By Childers and Kilcoole, County Wicklow by O'Brien.
He was imprisoned by the British authorities in 1917 and 1919. After the deaths of his wife and then his lover, he committed suicide in 1925.
Works
- A Vision of Life (1909) poems
- Shakespeare: A Study (1911)
- The Crucibles of Time (1911) poems
- Studies and Appreciations (1912)
- Broken Arcs (1912) novel
- Queen Tara (1913) play
- Jacob Elthorne (1914) novel as Michael Ireland
- The Mount of Transfiguration (1915) poems
- AE (George W. Russell). A Study of a Man and a Nation (1916)
- The Gaelic State in the Past & Future, or, "The Crown of a Nation" (1917)
- A Chronicle of Jails (1917)
- Bye-Ways of Study (1918) essays
- Children of Earth (1918) novel as Michael Ireland
- The Historic Case for Irish Independence (1918)
- Carleton's Stories of Irish Life (1918/9) by William Carleton, editor
- A Second Chronicle of Jails (1919)
- Planning for the Future (1922) address to the Architectural Association of Ireland
- The House of Success (1922) novel as Michael Ireland
- The Irish Constitution (1922)
- The Return of the Hero (1923) novel, as Michael Ireland
- The Paintings of William Blake (1925)
- John Milton and Darrell Figgis [editor]
- Comus: A Mask with Eight Illustrations By William Blake (1926) John Milton, editor
- Recollections of the Irish War (1927)
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