Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...
Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...
Ford chose fine material for his atonement: a story by Frank O'Conner, and one-act play by Lady Gregory and Martin McHugh. Then, after giving Hollywood its due by having Tyrone Power read the introductions, he filmed all three on location in Ireland, with actors from Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The result is a light, but eminently convincing movie...
ARTHUR HENRY VINCENT Dublin...
...Knock at the Door proves a thoroughly engaging reading version of the first volume of Sean O'Casey's full-flavored autobiography. In an arrangement by Paul Shyre, six people seated in front of lecterns recount a late Victorian Dublin childhood that ends when a twelve-year-old boy has "learned poetry and . . . kissed a girl." The boy was not just any Dublin child-beyond the gifted writer he would some day be, he was threatened with blindness; and in a shabby and fiercely Protestant home was watching his father...