Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist Sean O'Faolain has the good fortune to be obsessed by a single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize...
...NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
Shawn O'Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil...
...founded in 1899 through the efforts of Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, to make the world aware of a rebirth of Irish letters. The roster of playwrights who have worked and still work for the Theatre is a literary honor roll: Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, AE (George William Russell), Sean O'Casey, George Shiels, Lennox Robinson. And many an Irish Player has left home to make good in the U. S.: Arthur Sinclair, Dudley Digges, J. M. Kerrigan, Maire O'Neill...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...