Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) was born in County Mayo. A close friend of Austin Clarke and William Butler Yeats, Higgins was elected a foundation member of the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1935 became a director of the Abbey Theatre. Well-regarded as a poet, he also edited with Yeats a series of broadside ballads for the Cuala Press. This volume collects the best of Higgins's output from his four poetry collections and the literary magazines in which his poems appeared.
Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) was born in County Mayo. A close friend of Austin Clarke and William Butler Yeats, Higgins was elected a foundation member of the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1935 became a director of the Abbey Theatre. This volume collects the best of Higgins's output from his four poetry collections and the literary magazines in which his poems appeared.
