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...Professor William Alfred's bit play, Hogan's Goat, will be produced in Dublin this September. Another of Alfred's plays, Agamemnon, will open in Paris at the same time. Alfred, on sabbatical next year, plans to spend some time in Ireland "to keep an eye on things...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The immigrant is an archetypal role in American experience, and now from Dublin...
...full 44 years after independence before the Irish fulfilled the Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
Died. Frank O'Connor (real name: Michael O'Donovan), 62, consummate Irish storyteller; of a heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education...
...should be a dull dog but is not; he is the liveliest of loonies. High-spirited writing about a low-spirited man is rare enough tc raise hopeful questions about Donleavy's future as a writer. In Ginger Man, he wrote an irresistible Dublin farce; in A Singular Man, he created a fantasy figure of power, wealth and charm, who could do everything but was concerned mainly with building a mausoleum to defeat death. In Mr. S, he has created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular...