Alois Jirásek, Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays
As described by Alois Jirásek in Staré pověsti české, two brothers came to Central Europe from the east: Čech and Lech.
A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
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His illustrations can also be found in other works by Alois Jirásek, Jan Neruda, Karel Václav Rais und František Ladislav Čelakovský.
He wrote many operas, often using his own librettos, such as The Revenge of Catullus based on the work of Vrchlický (1917), Alladina and Palomid (based on the work of Maeterlinck, 1925), Ňura (1932), How the Death came in the World (1936), Jiří from Kunštát and Poděbrady (based on the work of Alois Jirásek, 1941), Cradle (composed on the work of Jirásek, 1951), Eupyros (1960).