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...Sean O'Faolain...
Death Is So Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'Alton as a novelist of individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified...
BIRD ALONE-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
...modern political upheavals have given rise to as many works of fiction as the civil war in Ireland in 1919-21. With novels by such varied talents as Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Peadar O'Donnell, Sean O'Faolain dramatizing different aspects of the struggle, followers of Irish literature may occasionally get the impression that the entire Republican Army was made up of accomplished novelists whose stories were better than their strategy. Of this talented crew, Sean O'Faolain has recently emerged as one of the best novelists in the ranks of fighters...
Last week Sean O'Faolain offered U. S. readers a novel far off the subject of his previous books, suggesting that he has put aside the Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather...