Frederick Ryan (1876 – April 1913), was anIrish,Dublin-bornplaywright,journalist andsocialist.[1]
Ryan became secretary of theIrish National Theatre Society in 1902. There he would create realistic satire with the playThe Laying of the Foundations. He was a member of the Celtic Literature Society and frequently wrote on political issues. He was co-editor along withWilliam Kirkpatrick Magee of the Irish journal Dana from May 1904 until April 1905.
Ryan joinedJames Connolly’sIrish Socialist Republican Party, and would become the national secretary of theSocialist Party of Ireland. He was also a member of the Young Irelanders branch of theUnited Irish League.[2]
He lived in Cairo as editor of theEgyptian Standard, from 1907 to 1909, then was organiser for the Irish Socialist Party. He editedWilfrid Scawen Blunt’sEgypt in London. He died in Blunt's house of appendicitis in 1913.[3]
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