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...Collected Stories, Frank O'Connor...
There is life in Fairfield County; just ask former Harvard hoop personalities TERRY O'CONNOR and MARK HARRIS. Following last season, O'Connor--the Harvard assistant coach--accepted the head coaching job at Fair-field University. Harris--last year's Crimson co-captain with TOM MAN-NIX--signed on as his assistant, and the two are now happily installed in Connecticut. "We're plugging along down here," Harris said, "just plugging along." ....In other basketball news, the Crimsons are slated to face the Irish National Team November 14 at the IAB. Last year in international competition, the hoopsters dumped...
...Connor, too, was largely self-taught. In 1923 he filled the gaps in his education while imprisoned for republican activities during the Irish civil war. Nationalism brought him in contact with other young Irish writers like Sean O'Faolain and Liam O'Flaherty. In 1931 O'Connor made his name with a book of stories entitled Guests of the Nation...
...become rather friendly with their Irish nationalist captors. The order to execute the pair is carried out with misgivings, especially since the condemned men remain amiable to the end. It is not quite believable, and the use of dialect is stagy. Yet the story retains power because O'Connor's honesty as an observer survives his most melodramatic techniques...
...horseplaying priest, however, who best expresses O'Connor's unhappy but indissoluble Gaelic family. "O Lord," he prays, "a man gives up the whole world for You ... his friends and his job, and goes off to a bare mountain where he can't even tell his troubles to the man alongside him; and still he keeps something back, some little thing to remind him of what he gave up. With me 'twas the horses and with this man 'twas the sup of beer, and I dare say there are fellows inside who have...