SOURCE: MacDonagh, John. “Edward Martyn.” Dublin Magazine 1, no. 6 (January 1924): 465-67.

In the following obituary tribute, MacDonagh offers personal reminiscences of Martyn.

Ireland can ill afford at any time, and particularly just now, when the voice of intellect is so faint among us, the loss of a man of such fine character and noble ideals as Edward Martyn.

It was my privilege for some years to spend hours each day with him, discussing plans, principally for The Irish Theatre, which he founded in 1914 with Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, and in which I acted as Manager and Producer. These hours will remain long with me in happy memory. One would be dull, indeed, who did not catch some spark from that mind, stored with culture and experience, and it would be a nature bereft of sympathy that did not expand in that kindly and genial presence.

Living such a...