Life
1877-1960; b. Dungarvin, Co. Waterford; novelist and dramatist; lived in
London; m. Karen Ewald, Norwegian writer; many writings include history,
poetry and psychical research, and travel books such as The Windjammer:
The Book of the Horn (1932); also The Drama of Sinn Féin
(1923). IF2
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Works
Fru Danmark (1917); The Danish People’s High School
(1918); Irland, [trans.] af Kai Friis-Møller (1918); The
Soul of Denmark (1918); Democracy: A Novel (London: Sidgwick
& Jackson 1919), v, 304pp.; Passion: A Human Story (1920); Labour:
the Giant with the Feet of Clay (1921); Bodies and Souls (1922);
Citizenship (London: Hoddder & Stoughton 1922), vi., 428pp.;
London Nights of Long Ago (1927), 28 ills.; The Drama of Sinn
Féin (London: Collins & Sons 1923), xx, 424pp., pls.; Echo
(1927); Gods: A Novel (1921); My Country : A Play in Four
Acts (1921); The Isle of Ghosts (1925); Ragnarok (1926);
Tales of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis (London: G. Richards
& H. Toulmin 1929), 319pp., wood-engravings by Ann Gillmore Carter; The
Love-Diary of a Boy (1930); Stars and Stripes: Impressions of America
(London: Hutchinson 1932), 302pp., port.; The Story of a Light
Lady (London: T. Werner Laurie 1932; 1933), 312pp.; Windjammer:
The Book of the Horn (London: Hutchinson 1932), 414pp., ill. [99 photos.];
London Pride (1936); God -? (1936); The Tale of a Coat
[Burberry Ltd.] (1933); We Do Not Die: on Spiritualism and Reincarnation
(1934); African Log (London: Hutchinson 1935), 282pp., ill.,
photographs & verse by the author; frontispiece from a drawing by Alfred
Palmer; World-birth (London: Methuen 1938), xv, 404pp.; Chaos:
A Novel (London: Hutchinson 1938), 484pp.; Reincarnation for Everyman
(1939; 1950), 243pp.; After Sudden Death [2nd edn.] (1939);
Life and Foster Freeman (London: Hutchinson 1940), 518pp.; Spiritualism?
(1941); How You Live When You Die: A Guide to the Next World (1942;
1950); You and God (1943); You Can Speak with Your Dead
(London & NY: Rider 1941; 1945), 103pp.; Incarnate Isis (1941)
[fiction]; Black Dawn (London: Hutchinson 1944), 223pp.; Love
after Death (1944); Jesus or Paul? (1945); Paradise Row:
A Novel of the Second World War (London: Hutchinson 1946), 272pp.;
Nobody Has Ever Died (1946); Spiritualism [by] Shaw Desmond
[for] & C. E. M. Joad [against] (1946), ports.; The Story of Adam Verity
(1947); My Adventures in the Occult (1947); The Edwardian
Story (London: Rockliff [1949]), x, 356pp., ill. ports.; Nathaniel
(1950); Personality and Power (1950), pls.; The Edwardian
Story (1950), pls. & ports.; Psychic Pitfalls (1950); Pilgrim
to Paradise: An Autobiography (London: Rider 1951), 272pp., port.;
Love by the Dark Water (1952); Irish Moon (London: Hutchinson
1953), 240pp.; Adam and Eve: a Guide to Sex and Marriage (1954);
God’s Englishman (1956); Healing: Psychic and Divine (1956)
[Listed in COPAC].
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Notes
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] Cork: Royal Carbery
1985), lists Gods (1921); Isle of Ghosts (1925) [a hectic
story of Irish Revolution, 1916]; Echo (1927) [Roman orgies under
Nero]; Nathaniel (1950) [autobiog. of a child with West British
and Protestant parents who experiments with various forms of religion
and culture in London]; Love of Dark Water (1952) [a historical
novel set on the Blackwater; ‘impossible brogue’ acc. Clarke];
Irish Moon (1953) [romantic tale of love, sea, and gallows set
in 19th c. Waterford]; Clarke considers his works mostly romances in which
authenticity is sacrificed to effect.
Eggeley Books (Cat. 44) lists Echo: Roman orgies under Nero (Duckworth 1927), viii, 9-287pp., a story of incarnation in Roman times, with some Irish content; also lists author-inscribed copy of Frederick Kaigh, Witchcraft and Magic of Africa, with foreword by Montague Summers (Richard Lesley 1947).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)