Life
1899-1962; b. Carlow, son of prominent business family; ed. UCD; joined
IRA, and imprisoned in Mountjoy; became Marine Superintendant in the Belgian
Congo, returning in 1932; resumed medical studies at TCD, but abandoned
them for journalism, contrib. The Bell; m. Frances Cahill, and
ran with her a hand-weaving in Dublin mountains called The Crock of Gold;
his novel, long in the writing, Thy Tears Might Cease (1963), edited by Monk Gibbon, who also wrote an introduction. DIB
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Works
Thy Tears Might Cease, introduced by Monk Gibbon (London: Hutchinson
1963; 4th imp. April 1964), 592pp. [Introduction, pp.9-25], and Do. (NY:
Knopf 1964), xxvi, 578pp.
Criticism
Peter Costello, The Heart Grown Brutal: the Irish revolution in literature
from Parnell to the death of Yeats, 1891-1939 (Gill & Macmillan
1977), pp.93-96, 119-23; James Cahalan, The Irish Novel (Gill &
Macmillan 1988), p.295; also FDA3 515n, 640, 641.
Review of Tears by Brendan Kennelly (Hermathena, XCIX, Autumn 1964).
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