Niall Montgomery

Life
1915-[?]; Irish Architect and literary critic with writings on Joyce and Beckett, who was a personal friend.

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Works
‘Proust and Joyce’ (The Dubliner, July-Aug. 1962, pp.11-22) [infra]; ‘A Context for Mr. Joyce’s Work’, in Maurice Harmon, ed., The Celtic Master [1st James Joyce Symposium in Dublin] (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1969), pp.9-15 [infra]. See also ‘No symbols where none intended’, in Fifth Mentor Selection (NY: New American Library 1954), 337pp. [with work by Samuel Beckett, Niall Montgomery and Maurice Meldon].

 

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Criticism
Anthony Cronin, No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien (London: Grafton 1989; rep. Paladin 1990), p.55.

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Notes
Donor: Niall Montgomery donated to the TCD Library copies of The Double Dealer: A Comedy as written by Congreve, distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Hopkins, prompter [Bell’s Edn.] (London: John Bell [... &c.] 1777), 82, [2]pp., pl., port, 12mo.; and Alcina: A New Comic Opera, to be performed at the City Theatre in Smock-Alley / The music intirely [sic] by Signor Gazaniga, and to be conducted by Messrs. San Giorgio and Carnevale (Dublin: printed by M. Mills [... &c] 1781), 4-40, [3]pp., 8vo.

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