Stories of Red Hanrahan and The Secret Rose

1927

Brasch PR5904 S76 1927

London: Macmillan

W. B. Yeats’ fictional character Owen ‘Red’ Hanrahan is based on the Irish bard Owen Roe O’Sullivan. To create his wandering hedge-schoolmaster, Yeats draws on the bardic tradition and folklore surrounding the legendary O’Sullivan. In the 1920s, Yeats republished the collected stories of his Owen. Impressed by Norah McGuinness’ stage design for a production of one of his plays, Yeats invited her to illustrate the stories with Modernist paintings employing a style influenced by Byzantine art.