Life
?-1939; [Andrew E. Malone; pseud. of Laurence P. Byrne]; American-born
critic of Irish literary drama, author of the first history of Irish theatre
during the period of the literary revival, and semi-official historian
of the Abbey in his day; published The Irish Drama 1896-1928 (1914;
rev. edn. 1929); also drama critic for The Irish Times up to his
death; contrib. The Bookman, et al.
Works
Monographs, The Irish Drama 1896-1928 [London 1914] (London: Constable 1929); Party Government in the Irish Free State (NY: Academy of Political Science 1929), 16pp. [8vo.; 1s. 6d.]
Articles & Chapters, ‘The Late Development of the Irish Drama’, in the Dublin Magazine (July-September 1928), q.pp.; ‘O’Casey’s Photographic Realism’ [1929], printed in Ron Ayling, Sean O’Casey: Modern Judgements (Macmillan 1969), pp.68-75; ‘The Rise of the Realistic Movement', in Lennox Robinson, ed., The Irish Theatre (NY: Macmillan & Co. 1939), pp.89-105.
See also a lengthy review of Silver Tassie (Macmillan) to The Irish Book Lover ((July-Dec. 1928) [infra].
[ top ]
Notes
Reviewed: For a review of Malone’s Irish
Drama, see Irish Book Lover (May-June 1929), p.70.
[ top ]
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)