About The Author

Arthur Power (1891-1984) was born in Guernsey where his father was an officer in the British Army. He too joined the army and served in World War I where he was badly gassed and invalided back home.

He spent some time recuperating at his uncle's house, Bellevue (which he later inherited) on the banks of the Suir near Waterford. After the war travelled around Europe, settling in Paris.

He later became Art Critic for The Irish Times and The Irish Tatler and Sketch. He painted all his life and exhibited at galleries in Dublin.

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From The Old Waterford House

Recollections of a Soldier and Artist

Arthur Power

This is the first paper-back edition of Arthur Power's autobiography, first published in 1940.

A young man from a wealthy and eminent Waterford family follows in his father's footsteps and joins the British Army shortly before the beginning of World War I. During the war he witnesses the horrors of the Western Front and becomes a victim of a German gas attack.

Seriously ill, he is sent home to recuperate and spends some time at his uncle's house "Bellvue" on the banks of the Suir. He returns to his mother's house in Dublin and witnesses the 1916 Rising.

Sickened by war he turns to Art and when peace comes he goes to Paris, determined to become an artist. There he meets many well known artists, including Modigliani, Maillol and Pascin and writers Hemingway and Beckett, and becomes a friend of James Joyce.

He is wrenched from this milieu by the death of his aunt and his interitance of the estate at Bellevue, to which he returns.

"Arthur Power tells in these intimate and charming sketches the story of a youth who left Ireland perturbed and distressed by the rapidly changing movements of his time." - Paul Henry

From The Old Waterford House: Recollections of a Soldier and an Artist by Arthur Power
Non-Fiction; Memoir
157 pages with index
First published in Ireland in 1940 by The Carthage Press. This first paperback edition published in 2004 by Ballylough Books.
ISBN: 0-9533704-2-9

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See also, Rhyming Poetry Revived: A Pocket Book of Rhyming Verse, Old and New edited by Tom Fewer.

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