Red-headed Rebel Susan L. Mitchell, Poet and Mystic of the Irish Cultural Renaissance

Poet and mystic of the Irish cultural renaissance of the early 20th century, Susan Mitchell was a friend of Lily Yeats, Constance Markiewicz and Seamas O'Sullivan. Her name was linked in Dublin with that of painter and mystic, AE. Raised by her unionist ounts in Dublin, she rebelled against the privileged Protestant society in which she was reared, to become a journalist on Plunkett's far-sighted publications, The Irish Homestead and The Irish Statesman, at a time when Home Rule was imminent. Objective despite her Republican views, she lampooned contemporary politics and the literary world alike. Her satirical commentary provides essential reading for a background to the present situation in Northern Ireland.