Life
1914-1937; Charles [Patrick]; b. Co. Tyrone, 1910 [sic, DIW DIB], d. Jarama
1937; ed. UCD Brilliant member of the Nolan, Devlin, McDonagh, Cyril Cusack,
(Liam) Redmond L & H Earlsfort Terrace set, some poems in magazines
such as Comhthrom Féinne [DIB Cothróm Féinne],
ed. Niall Sheridan. Formed left wing group, Student Vanguard; failed exams;
went to London and edited The Republican Congress in London with
Leslie Daiken, 1935; joined the Abe Lincoln Batt. of the International
Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and died on the Jarama Front; wrote thesis
on 19th c. Military Strategy which impressed Liddell Hart, the military
historian. Poetry admired by Ewart Milne and others. DIW DIB OCIL FDA
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Criticism
J. Donnelly, Charles Donnelly: Life and Poems (Dublin 1988). COMM,
Joseph O’Connor, Even the Olives are Bleeding (Dublin: New
Island Books 1992).
Gerald Dawe, ‘Heroic Heart: Charles Donnelly’, Against Piety: essays in Irish Poetry (Lagan Press 1995), pp.65-80.
Joseph O’Connor, Even the Olives are Bleeding, The Life and Times of Charles Donnelly [1905-1937] (N Island Bks 1993), 142pp.
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Anthony Cronin (Irish Times, Jan 1993); note that Donnelly’s brother still holds papers with a view to a biography (acc. Kathleen Devine, OCIL contrib). NOTE that there is a poem in Donnelly in Michael Longley’s Gorse Fires (1991).
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 3: selects from Charlie [sic] Donnelly,
Life and Poems, ‘The Flowering Bars’, ‘The Tolerance
of Crows’, ‘Poem’, ‘Heroic Heart’; BIOG 1431.
1994, Charlie Donnelly, The Life and Poems, ed., Joseph Donnelly (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1987) [0 948268 30 1]; The Tolerance of Crows and Other Poems (Cork: Three Spires Press 1994) [1-873548-20-6]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)