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...introduction to Stories and Plays, Claud Cockburn apologizes for the scantiness of O'Brien's oeuvre. He tries to explain the 22-year gap between the enormously successful At Swim and O'Brien's next novel by blaming the Irish intellectuals, the Dublin critics of the 40's and 50's who imposed incessant political and literary demands on promising Irish writers of the time. Reviews of Stories and Plays concur; Bernard Bernstock said "the fault (for O'Brien's laspe in productivity)...lies in the political and intellectual life of northern Ireland." He notes that O'Nolan, unlike Joyce...
...Myles (1968) a selection of na Gopaleen's columns in Irish, French and English, gathers together some of the funniest and most incisive pieces of creative vitality ever in newsprint. Critics and fans of Flann resent Myles, O'Nolan's 'unfortunate literary identity,' a jester who distracted the aforementioned Dublin politicoaesthetes while the creative artist tried vainly tc work behind the scenes in his spare time. But perhaps O'Nolan himself, whose writing is always for and of the Irish public, thought his journalism as valid as his novels...
Impressive Break. The Ewart-B|ggs killing was a dramatic demonstration of how easily the fires of the North can leap to the South. The Dublin government has stepped up patrols along its border with Ulster. Still, local support for the I.R.A., though waning in the South, makes control difficult. A Provo-organized march last April, banned by the Dublin government, attracted 10,000 marchers in the capital's streets. This month several jailed I.R. A. members staged an impressive break from a Dublin prison...
...Proves still keep their secret headquarters in Dublin, maintain countless hideouts and cross the border with ease. In addition to the assassination, Dublin's continuing dilemma was highlighted this week by an international conference sponsored in the capital by the Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political arm. This was the Anti-Imperialist Festival of terrorist-linked organizations attended by 50 delegations, including one from the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Died. Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, twelve days after taking up his post as British Ambassador to Ireland; when a terrorist bomb exploded beneath his car; near Dublin (see THE WORLD...