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...therefore, not a little surprising to discover in Sean O'Faolain a good humored Irishman. He sees the breathing corpses which Joyce portrayed in Dubliners, the scarecrows and fairies with whom Yeats identified, the fools and buffoons whom Shaw cauterized. But this vision of the lover does not move him to the usual nausea or lamentation, but instead to reform...
...Irishman, however eloquent, can have any confidence that he will not be interrupted by another eloquent Irishman, Irish writers are at their best when they keep it short. O'Flaherty shares mastery of the short story form with fellow countrymen Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain and Joyce of The Dubliners...
...talents are undeniable," writes Sean O'Faolain, "but so far they have not produced a play without the stamp of the workshop on it." The same can be said of O'Casey's autobiography. Most of its long and lyrical passages of proletarian praise are marked chiefly by what Stephen Potter might call prosemanship. Here & there are real gems of observation and poetic imagination. But when O'Casey declares that he would like 1,000 years of life "to encircle [the peoples of the world] with his arms like a girdle encircling the waist...
...conservative Catholic publications as the Brooklyn Tablet hopping mad) is presented each week by a triumvirate of devout but underpaid editors, aided by outside articles on politics, philosophy and the arts (for about a cent a word) from such contributors as Catholics Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, Sean O'Faolain, non-Catholics Franz Werfel, Dorothy Thompson, Anglican W. H. Auden. The editors can print whatever they like because they have no publishing angel, no official ties with the Church...
Sean O'Faolain, famed Irish short-story writer, novelist (A Nest of Simple Folk) and biographer (A Life of Daniel O'Connell), loosed a blistering attack on Autoantiamericanism, a word of his own construction. Writing in the Irish monthly The Bell, he was addressing himself chiefly to his own countrymen, but his message would make interesting reading for a lot of other "auto-antis." Excerpts...