X-Nico

unusual facts about Edward Plunkett, 4th Baron of Dunsany



Dunsany's chess

This game was invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942.

Edward Plunkett, 4th Baron of Dunsany

He was the son of John Plunkett, 3rd Baron of Dunsany, and Catherine Hussey, daughter of the feudal baron of Galtrim.

Eileen Shanahan

Her poetry was highly regarded by Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), who helped her to gain publication of The Three Children and Shankill in The London Mercury.

The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms

The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms is a collection of ghost stories, essays and plays by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, edited by Darrell Schweitzer and illustrated by Tim Kirk.

The Well of the Unicorn

He too compared it to the works of Cabell and Eddison, as well as Lord Dunsany, "to whom, indeed, it is somewhat indebted" (an allusion to Pratt's acknowledged adoption of the setting of Dunsany's play King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior).


see also