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Aet. 48, to an Irish scholar and man of letters, cofounder of the Gaelic League, author of A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899) including scholarly discussion of the Diarmuid–Gráinne story.

Diarmuid and Grania, a play by George Moore and W. B. Yeats for the Irish Literary Theatre, premiered 21 October 1901 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.

In Hail and Farewell! Ave (Chapter 1) George recalled that he received complimentary copies of the Dublin Daily Express for a year in London before moving to Dublin. In the same chapter, he recalled encountering Yeats for the first time at a performance of the verse drama, The Land of Heart’s Desire in 1894.

With this letter George sent Hyde a copy of Yeats’s Poems (London: Elkin Mathews, 1899) which included The Land of Heart’s Desire. In a speech after The Bending of the Bough, George predicted that Hyde would translate The Land of Heart’s Desire into Irish for the Irish Literary Theatre, but he never got around to it.