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Tommy O'Driscoll, the fictional hero of The Prospects Are Pleasing, is a rachitic young Dublin clerk who dreams of being "the Anointed, the Victim, and, at the same time, the Hero" in the "march for a free Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once...
Among novelists, James Hanley, 57, is a rare bird of dark plumage. A child of the Dublin slums, he educated himself between odd jobs (railway porter, cook, butcher, postman), went to sea and found no romance in it. His history and temperament have preserved him from the British novelist's preoccupation with class and the detail of social life. He writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published...
Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
GOREN AND SOBEL GOOFED IN BIDDING. THE DUBLIN HAND IS A SURE SEVEN NO TRUMP...
...John Millington Synge's lilting Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, which opened last week at London's Westminster Theater. The adapters: two music students, Nuala O'Farrell, 26, and her sister Mairin, 27, who started the show as a workshop project for Dublin's University College. They succeeded so well that the play was staged last month at Dublin's Gaiety Theater and won rave notices...