Sun and Wind

2004 O’Grady, Standish James (1846-1928). Sun and Wind. Ed. Edward A. Hagan. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 149 pp., with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), where he calls he book a “utopian treatise (viii), a Note on the Text (xxiii-xxiv), and the editor's notes to the text (146-149). Chapter 3 “Air and Light and the Heroic” (60-69) was published in different form in the Christmas number of the The Irish Worker (1912) and as “Sun and Wind” in The New Age 3 (July 1913): 261-263. Chapter 7 “An Event of World History” (104-108) was previously published in The Irish Review 1.4 (June 1911): 161-164. Chapter 9 “The Silent Race” (109-117) was previously published in The Irish Review 1.7 (September 1911): 313-321. PSt

The book was written between 1911 and 1928 and left unfinished at the author’s death, and this is the first publication. The first part (1-33) is on what needs to change in Ireland. The second part (35-145) presents the author’s understanding of ancient Greece, particularly Arcadia (94-103), as the model for a eutopia for Ireland stressing nature and the simple life. Irish author.