FOOTNOTES:
[A] Both Mr. Moore and Mr. Martyn dropped out of the movement after the third performance at the Irish Literary Theatre in 1901.—W.B.Y.
[B] That mood has gone, with Fenianism and its wild hopes. The National movement has been commercialized in the last few years. How much real ideality is but hidden for a time one cannot say.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[C] An illusion, as he himself explained to me. He had never seen Phèdre. The players were quiet and natural, because they did not know what else to do. They had not learned to go wrong.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[D] This play was John Bull’s Other Island. When it came out in the spring of 1905 we felt ourselves unable to cast it without wronging Mr. Shaw. We had no ‘Broadbent’ or money to get one.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[E] The Poor House, written in Irish by Dr. Hyde on a scenario by Lady Gregory.
[F] Riders to the Sea. This play made its way very slowly with our audiences, but is now very popular.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[G] The players, though not the playwrights, are now all paid.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[H] John Bull’s Other Island.
[I] Mr. Boyle has since left us as a protest against the performance of Mr. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[J] This essay was written immediately after the opening of the Abbey Theatre, though it was not printed, through an accident, until the art of the Abbey has become an art of peasant comedy. It tells of things we have never had the time to begin. We still dream of them.—W.B.Y., March, 1908.
[K] I have heard musicians excuse themselves by claiming that they put the words there for the sake of the singer; but if that be so, why should not the singer sing something she may wish to have by rote? Nobody will hear the words; and the local time-table, or, so much suet and so many raisins, and so much spice and so much sugar, and whether it is to be put in a quick or a slow oven, would run very nicely with a little management.
[L] The Arrow, a briefer chronicle than Samhain, was distributed with the programme for a few months.
APPENDIX I
THE HOUR-GLASS.
This play is founded upon the following story, recorded by Lady Wilde in Ancient Legends of Ireland, 1887, vol. i., pp. 60-67:—