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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mrs. Dorothy Cadogan Byrne, relict of Author Donn Byrne (The Wind Bloweth, Messer Marco Polo), and M. M. Willoughby Craig, Irish sportsman; at Oban, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Byrne | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

With true Irish love for the brave gesture, Donn Byrne rode debonairly to his death (TIME, July 2). Half the world still mourns the creator of magical prose (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery) and the other half, the conjuror of sentimental melodrama (Hangman's House, Crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Irishry | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Doubles--Ware and Rueter defeated Messer and Burt (D.), 6-8, 3-6, 6-3; Herz and H. W. Sayles '28 defeated Gifford and Van Petten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TENNIS TEAM EASILY DEFEATS M. I. T. | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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