1. Ella Young was an Irish poet and Celtic mythologist active in the Gaelic and Celtic Revival literary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.
19 Facts About Ella Young
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Ella Young emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1925 as a temporary visitor and lived in California.
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Ella Young held a chair in Irish Myth and Lore at the University of California, Berkeley for seven years.
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Ella Young retired to the town of Oceano, where she died at the age of 88.
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Ella Young later received her master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Ella Young had a series of fairy experiences, which she recounted in the press.
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Ella Young first came to the United States in the 1920s to visit friends, traveling to Connecticut to meet Mary Colum and her husband, Irish poet Padraic Colum.
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Ella Young immigrated to the United States in 1925; according to Kevin Starr she "had been briefly detained at Ellis Island as a probable mental case when the authorities learned that she believed in the existence of fairies, elves, and pixies".
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Ella Young spoke with a melodious voice; when she spoke everyone listened.
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Ella Young had a thin, wispy quality that made her appear as the apparition of the very spirits she described.
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Ella Young was the James D Phelan Lecturer in Irish Myth and Lore at the University of California, Berkeley, for approximately a decade.
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Ella Young was hosted for a fortnight by the famous artist John O'Shea and socialized with the poet Robinson Jeffers and with the "radical Socialists" Sinclair Lewis, Ella Winter, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens.
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In 1934 Ella Young penned an enigmatic review of O'Shea's exhibition of charcoals at San Francisco's prestigious Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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O'Shea's celebrated portrait of Ella Young was exhibited in 1940 and 1945 at the Carmel Art Association.
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Ella Young traveled with Adams and his wife Virginia to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1929, spending time with friends, visiting artists at the Taos art colony, and staying with Mabel Dodge Luhan.
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Ella Young published her autobiography, Flowering Dusk: Things Remembered Accurately and Inaccurately in 1945.
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Later, she found particular affinity in the California Redwoods After battling cancer, Ella Young was found dead in her Oceano home on 23 July 1956.
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Ella Young left the bulk of her estate to the Save the Redwoods League.
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One library catalogue summary of the 1988 selection, perhaps by its publisher Floris Books, implies that "Ella Young's classic re-telling of Celtic stories" comprises all four earlier collections.