The Children's Homer (the Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy) - Padraic Colum
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. 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.


