Contributor(s): Author: Padraic Colum Illustrator: Willy Pogany Born and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left at seventeen to become a clerk in the Irish Railway Clearing House in Dublin.
His success as a dramatist, poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, children\'s write.
This venture was short-lived, however, and with the success of a few poems and a play, "The Saxon Shillin\'," he left in 1904 to pursue a career in writing.
Contributor(s): Author: Padraic Colum Illustrator: Willy Pogany Born and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left at seventeen to become a clerk in the Irish Railway Clearing House in Dublin