Life
[pseud. of Nina Wotiszek]; author of Tales of the Irish Intelligentsia
(London: Fourth Estate 1991; rep. 1991), co-authored with her partner
Pat Sheeran; also The Loves of Faustyna (1994;
pb. Fourth Estate 1995), by Witiszek, set in Poland during the fall-of-the-wall
period. (See Books Ireland Review, Sept. 1994); Fables of the
Irish Intelligentsia was filmed as Talking to the Dead (2000),
narrated by Sheeran and dir. Pat Collins, the film explores ‘the
obsessive hold that the dead have on the living in this country’
(Sheeran).
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Works
Nina Witiszek, The Theatre of Recollection: A Cultural Study of the
Modern Dramatic Tradition in Ireland and Poland ( Stockholm:
University of Stockholm Press 1988) [incl. comments on Thomas Kilroy et
al.]; [with Patrick Sheeran as Nina Fitzpatrick,] Tales of the Irish
Intelligentsia (London: Fourth Estate 1991), 140pp.; with Patrick
Sheeran, ‘The Traditional of Vernacular Hatred’, in Geert Lernout,
ed., The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish
Poetry and Drama (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1991), pp.11-27.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)