Excerpt from Appreciations and Depreciations: Irish Literary Studies

The publication in a uniform edition of Standish O'Grady's epic reconstruction of the Heroic Period in Irish history comes as a final tribute and testimony to his genius. His apparently neglected labours have been rewarded by the flowering of an Anglo-Irish literature, which first caught the breath of national life in the vivid and inspiring pages of O'Grady's bardic histories and romances. Like Finn, he enjoys consideration now that his literary sons and grandsons, nephews and grand-nephews, have grown up around him. But, living in our age, he has had to witness the inevitable ingratitude which the modern parent has been taught to accept from the rising generation. It is not so long ago since Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson, whom he once claimed amongst his disciples, publicly repudiated him. But his right to be regarded as the "father of us all" has been generously acknowledged by every important writer of the Literary Revival, and never more eloquently than in the preface, "Standish O'Grady: a Tribute, " which "Æ." has written for the collected edition of OGrady's works.

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