How Lord Dunsany came to be a poet is a problem that may be somewhat baffling. He was brought up to be a soldier and therefore he went to Sandhurst instead of to a university. It is not necessary to ...

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I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction. In an early essay, Clarke describes ...

CULT HERO: Anglo-Irish fantasist Lord Dunsany wielded an inestimable influence over the evolution of speculative fiction in the 20th century. His elaborate, whimsical tales inspired writers as diverse ...

A shy, cultured, extremely good-looking man, Eddie Plunkett was well known in Ireland as a portrait painter (his sitters included the former Taoiseachs Charles Haughey and John Bruton). Further afield ...