Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
Novelist, Author
1878 – 1957
Who was Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany?
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays.
Born to the second-oldest title in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.
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- Born
- Jul 24, 1878
London - Also known as
- Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
- Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett 18th Baron Dunsany
- Ethnicity
- Anglo-Irish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- Eton College
- Lived in
- County Meath
- Shoreham
- Died
- Oct 25, 1957
Dublin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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