Green Glowing Skull. Gavin Corbett

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Copyright

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      Copyright © Gavin Corbett 2015

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      Cover design © Kate Gaughran

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      Source ISBN: 9780007594306

      Ebook Edition © May 2015 ISBN: 9780007594337

      Version: 2016-02-18

Dedication

      For Lilian

Epigraph

      A round unvarnished tale is that delivered to our representative by Mr. J.F. McCormack, the Irish tenor, who has just returned from St. Louis. Mr. McCormack’s narrative is a model of moderation, and contains ample internal evidence that he has exaggerated neither in one direction nor the other. From what came under his own observation it is plain that there were at least a couple of disgusting exhibitions of stage-Irishman antics … If the matter ended at what Mr. McCormack saw himself it would appear that there has been a good deal of high colouring in the charges levelled against the management of the theatre. The narratives of Mr. Digges, Mr. Ewing, and Miss Quinn, of the Irish Literary Theatre, have, however, yet to be obtained, and it may well be that they will supplement the facts related by Mr. McCormack.

      From a report in The Dublin Evening Mail, July 21, 1904

      A thought … will fly from us and only return again in the darkness crying in a thin, childish voice which we may not comprehend until, with aching minds, listening and divining, we at last fashion for it those symbols which are its protection and its banner.

      JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold