1924 To-Morrow

Description

First Edition, Uncommon

Present here are the only issues of this short-lived periodical ever published: Vol. 1. No. 1 August, 1924, and Vol. 1. No. 2. September, 1924.

These are in exceptionally bright condition, and feature a large monochrome woodcut illustration by Cecil Salkeld to each issue.

The first issue is most notable for featuring the first Irish publication of Yeats's most famous poem, 'Leda and the Swan'.

Featuring a mixture of prose and poetry, contributions include Liam O'Flaherty's 'A Red Petticoat', Margaret Barrington's 'Colour', Iseult Stuart's 'The Poplar Road' and 'The Tendencies of the Younger Irish Poetry' by L. K. Emery.

The periodical was intended as a forward-looking forum for new Irish poetry and prose, but only two issues were issued before its suppression.

Yeats wrote about the periodical, 'my dream is a wild paper of the young which will make enemies everywhere and suffer suppression, I hope a number of times, with the logical assertion, with all fitting deductions, of the immortality of the soul.'