Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary--and apocalyptic--turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the "catastrophic immediate-future," Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Travelling first to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland's western coast, then to Galway, and finally to Dublin, Artaud was...