Ella Young was one of Ireland's great artists. Poet, dreamer, singer, she was a member of that brilliant group including Padraic Colum, William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Dr. Douglas Hyde, Fiona Macleod, George Russell, and James Stephens, which has given such vitality to the Celtic Renaissance in literature.

Flowering Dusk is the story of her life in Ireland and in America, but it is not an autobiography in the usual sense; for out of her vivid imagination and in her own inimitable style she weaves a pattern of pictures with half remembered meaning--pictures of her girlhood in the south of Ireland, the world of elves, fairies and ghosts. Later after graduation from the Royal University in Dublin, she began her researches in Celtic mythology. She sought her materials first hand by learning to speak the Gaelic language and by living among the peasants in isolated regions of Ireland, where the lovely old legends and splendid sagas which are the secret of the Irish peasant spirit, are still kept alive.