Edward Martyn was an Irish playwright, arts patron and nationalist politician. He served as the first president of Sinn Féin from 1905 to 1908, and was a co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre, the Feis Ceoil and the stained-glass studio An Túr Gloine. Though his own dramatic output was modest, his financial generosity and cultural activism shaped many of the defining institutions of the Irish Literary Revival.
- Occupation
- politician, writer
- Citizenship
- Irish Free State, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 30, 1859, January 31, 1859
- Died
- December 5, 1923, December 15, 1923
