Mary Devenport O'Neill (August 3, 1879 - 1967) was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats. August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... A 1907 engraving of William Butler Yeats, one of Irelands best-known poets. ... Oscar Wilde remains one of Irelands best-known playwrights The history of Irish theatre begins with the rise of the English administration in Dublin at the start of the 17th century. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ...

O'Neill studied at the National College of Art in Dublin. She published two verse plays, Bluebeard (1933) and Cain (1945) and one collection of poetry, Prometheus and Other Poems (London: Jonathan Cape 1929). She also published regularly in The Dublin Magazine up to 1949. Bluebeard, a ballet based on her play, was choreographed by Ninette de Valois as one of the final productions of the Abbey school of ballet in the year it was published. Her work shows the influence of W. B. Yeats and the Imagists, and she is one of a very small number of early 20th century Irish modernist women poets. Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Dublin Magazine was an Irish literary journal founded and edited by the poet Seamus OSullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) and published by New Square Publications, Dublin, Eire It ran from August 1923 to August 1925 as a monthly and then from January 1926 to June 1958 as... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... At age 16 Dame Ninette de Valois (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001) was the Irish founder of Londons renowned Royal Ballet. ... Ireland. ... A 1907 engraving of Yeats. ... Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... Modernist poetry refers specifically to poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernism. ...

Her regular Thursday salon was attended by Yeats, AE, and other prominent Irish writers. She had a reputation as a psychic and served as consultant to Yeats while he was working on his book A Vision. George William Russell (pseud. ...

Her husband, Joseph O’Neill was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education, and Yeats, in his role as a member of Seanad Éireann, learned a lot about the Irish education system from the O'Neills. Seanad Éireann (English: Senate of Ireland), the Irish Senate, is the upper house of the Oireachtas: the parliament of the Republic of Ireland1. ...

Reference

• Mary Devenport O'Neill at the Princess Grace Irish Library (http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/o/ONeill,MD/life.htm)