Padraic Colum (1881-1972)
Teacher Resource File
Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Padraic Colum
page. For
other children's authors, see Children's
Authors and Illustrators. The
ISLMC is a meta-site for librarians, teachers, parents and students. You
can search this site, use an index or a sitemap. Be sure
to visit your school or public library to find books by your favorite
authors.
Related Page: Greek Mythology
[Biography]
[Lesson Plans]
[E-texts Online]
[Miscellaneous]
[ERIC Resources]
Biography
Padraic
Colum
Biography from longfordtourism.com
Padraic
Colum
Biography from Irelandseye.com
University
of Delaware: Padraic Colum Papers
Includes brief biographical note and index of papers
held
Padraic Colum
Brief biographical entry from Project Bartleby
Local Ireland:
Longford County Library
Space down for brief biographical entry.
[Back to Top]
Lesson Plans
Ms. Quinlivan's
Traveller Group
Uses Colum's poem, "An Old Woman of the Roads," in creative
writing activity.
[Back to Top]
Online E-texts
Bartleby's Padraic
Colum
Online links to books, The Adventures of Odysseus and the
Tale
of Troy (1918), The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived
before
Achilles (1922); anthologized verse "The Plower" and
"An Old Woman of the Roads"
Padraic
Colum, "I Shall Not Die for Thee"
Poem with link to original Irish text on which the poem was
based.
From Seamus Cooney's page, Western Michigan
The
Oxford Book of English Verse. Padric Colum
Text of "An Old Woman of the Roads"
"O Men from
the Fields; A Cradle Song"
Songs. Text from Colum's "Song from Connacht"
"A
Cradle Song"
Illustrated text from Catholic Information Network
The Susquehanna
Quarterly
E-texts of "She Moved Through the Faire," "An Old Woman of the
Roads,"
"Across the Door"
Celtic
Fringe Poems 2
E-texts of "An Old Woman of the Roads," & "A Cradle Song"
MathWeb. "Tulips"
From Mathematical Poetry; A Small Anthology
"The
Battle of the Frogs and Mice"
From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before
Achilles
The
King of Ireland's Son
Celtic folklore from Belinus Press
[Back to
Top]
Miscellaneous
The
Irish Times
Feature article on favorite poems of all times in either
English or
Irish, including list
[Back to Top]
ERIC Resources
If these links do not work, please search AskERic directly.
Storytelling
New and Old
Article by Colum in Horn Book Magazine, June 1983.
EJ282576
[Back to Top]
Return to:
Children's & YA Authors & Illustrators
Children's Literature/Elementary
Resources
YA Lit/Middle & Secondary Resources
Site administrator: Inez Ramsey, Professor
Emeritus
James Madison University
E-mail: ramseyil@jmu.edu