The Runa Press was established in spring 1943 by Eithne O’Connell, a young poet, Irish language activist, and civil servant originally from rural Limerick, along with her future husband, Trinity College Dublin student and psychoanalyst Rupert Strong. Strong had followed his mentor, Jonathan Hanaghan, to Dublin from England in the late 1930s. Hanaghan, a powerful personality, founded the Monkstown Group, which met to discuss psychoanalysis from the early 1940s, later evolving into the Irish Psychoanalytic Association. The Group scandalised Dublin with their bohemian conception of life and their mystical fusion of Freud and Christ. Read more about the Runa Press and its founders in the full exhibition.