Word: faolain
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...Among them: Poets William Butler Yeats (who was an I.R.A. "morale officer") and Oliver St. John Gogarty; Playwrights Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan; Novelists Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Ireland: The Tear and the Smile," the second of a two-program report, with guests ranging from Actress Siobhan McKenna to Writer Sean O'Faolain and Designer Sybil Connolly...
...most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
...best elements of The Vanishing Hero are the fineness of the writing--a rare quality in criticism--and occasional casual but telling remarks. Again and again, O'Faolain pins his subject down with a sentence; but then he fails to realize the implications of his basic assertion. It is only in the last few pages, about Joyce, that O'Faolain is consistently impressive. For the first time he does not seem confused, and his words have the ring of sympathy. The source of his understanding and sympathy are made clear in his penultimate tirade against the horrors of Joyce...
This is more than an echo of Joyce, it is a statement of O'Faolain's own grievances; while this plaint may induce sympathy for both of them, it is also an indication why O'Faolain is a sorry critic of alien literature...