Dunsany

American  

[duhn-sey-nee] / dʌnˈseɪ ni /

noun

1. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett 18th Baron Lord Dunsany, 1878–1957, Irish dramatist, poet, and essayist.

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Dunsany British  

/ dʌnˈseɪnɪ /

noun

1. 18th Baron, title of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett. 1878–1957, Irish dramatist and short-story writer

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Example Sentences

Issue 10 is dated Samhain 2017 — Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the first day of winter — and entirely devoted to Lord Dunsany and that prodigious fantasy writer’s place in Irish literature.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2018

Dunsany wrote some 600 stories, many hitherto uncollected and some unpublished — until “The Ghost in the Corner.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017

These are pricey books — $75 to $100 — but some titles, such as “Lord Dunsany: A Comprehensive Bibliography,” edited by Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer, are worth saving up for.

From Washington Post

"It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before ever science came," Lord Dunsany once remarked, with both British and scientific understatement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord Dunsany was a captain in the First Royal Iniskilling Fusileers—a regiment mentioned in Sheridan's Saint Patrick's Day—and saw service in Syria and the Near East as well as on the western front.

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus