Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The immigrant is an archetypal role in American experience; and now from Dublin, Playwright Brian Friel sends a reminder of the wrench at leaving the other side. As a double exposure of the young Irish hero, Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford do not miss a trick or a tear...
...Professor William Alfred's bit play, Hogan's Goat, will be produced in Dublin this September. Another of Alfred's plays, Agamemnon, will open in Paris at the same time. Alfred, on sabbatical next year, plans to spend some time in Ireland "to keep an eye on things...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The immigrant is an archetypal role in American experience, and now from Dublin...
Died. Frank O'Connor (real name: Michael O'Donovan), 62, consummate Irish storyteller; of a heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education...
...should be a dull dog but is not; he is the liveliest of loonies. High-spirited writing about a low-spirited man is rare enough tc raise hopeful questions about Donleavy's future as a writer. In Ginger Man, he wrote an irresistible Dublin farce; in A Singular Man, he created a fantasy figure of power, wealth and charm, who could do everything but was concerned mainly with building a mausoleum to defeat death. In Mr. S, he has created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular...