Frederick Ryan was an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

, Dublin-born playwright

Playwright

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, journalist

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 and socialist.

Career

Ryan became secretary of the Irish National Theatre Society in 1902. There he would create realistic satire with the play The Laying of the Foundations. He was a member of the Celtic Literature Society and frequently wrote on political issues.

Ryan joined James Connolly

James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents and spoke with a Scottish accent throughout his life. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of...

’s Irish Socialist Republican Party

Irish Socialist Republican Party

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, and would become the national secretary of the Socialist Party of Ireland. He was also a member of the Young Irelanders branch of the United Irish League

United Irish League

The United Irish League was a nationalist political party in Ireland, launched 23 January 1898 with the motto "The Land for the People" . Its objective to be achieved through agrarian agitation and land reform, compelling larger grazier farmers to surrender their lands for redistribution amongst...

.

He lived in Cairo as editor of the Egyptian Standard, from 1907 to 1909, then was organiser for the Irish Socialist Party. He edited Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and writer. He was born at Petworth House in Sussex, and served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. His mother was a Catholic convert and he was educated at Twyford School, Stonyhurst and at St Mary's College, Oscott...

’s Egypt in London. He died in Blunt's house of appendicitis in 1913.