Life
1900-1980 [usu. Lady Longford; Christine Patti Pakenham, Countess of Longford;
née Trew]; b. Chedder, Somerset, ed. Somerville College, Oxford;
m. Edward Pakenham, Lord Longford, 1925, and lived at Pakenham Hall, Castlepollard,
Co. Longford, and in Dublin; novels such as Making Conversations (1931);
and numerous Gate plays; Managing Director, 1961-64; d. 14 May. DIW
DIH DIL IF2 ATT OCIL
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Works
Plays incl. Lord Edward (Longford Prods. 1941); The United
Brothers (Longford Prods., 1944); Mr Jiggins of Jigginstown
(Gate 1933), included in Plays of Changing Ireland, ed. Curti[n]s
Canfield (NY: Macmillan 1936), adapted from her own novel; The Hill
of Quirke (Longford 1953); The United Brothers (Dublin Hodges
Figgis 1942); Patrick Sarsfield (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1943); The
Earl of Straw (1945); The Hill of Quirke (Dublin: P J Bourke,
1958); Mr Supple, or Time Will Tell (Dublin: P. J. Bourke [n.d.]);
Tankardstown (Dublin: P. J. Bourke [n.d.]).
Novels incl. Making Conversation (London: Stein & Gollancz 1931); Country Places (London: Gollancz 1932; Dublin: Parkside Press 1945); Mr Jiggins of Jigginstown (London: Stein & Gollancz 1933); Printed Cotton (London: Methuen 1935); and A Biography of Dublin (London: Methuen 1936).
Miscellaneous, Vespasian and Some of His Contemporaries (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1928).
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Criticism
Robert Hogan, After the Irish Renaissance: A Critical History of the
Irish Drama since ‘The Plough and the Stars’ (Minneapolis:
Minnesota UP 1967), espec. p.268; John Cowell, No Profit But the Name:
The Longfords at the Gate Theatre (O’Brien Press 1989), 224pp.
[with index].
Cheryl Herr, For The Land They Loved (Syracuse UP 1991): In P. J. Bourke’s plays, the conventions appear lowercase [i.e., giving a populist rather than an conventionally aristocratic view of the Rising], approximating a realism in the treatment of 1798 that was to develop later in, for instance, Christine Longford’s United Brothers (1942).
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Notes
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers
(Dublin: Lilliput Press 1985), novels inc. Country Places (1932),
clever, malicious sketch of domestic life of Anglo-Irish gentry; Mr.
Jiggins of Jigginstown (1933), ‘silly people’ and county
families; Printed Cotton (1935), the autobiog. of Miss Cooke of
Cookestown, dg. of strict Protestant and Unionist family. See Irish
Book Lover, 24. IF2 lists Country Places (1932), Mr Jiggins
of Jigginstown (1933), and Printed Cotton (1935); also translated
The Furies.
D. E. S. Maxwell (Modern Irish Drama, 1984) lists Mr Jiggins of Jigginstown, in Curtis Canfield, ed. Plays of Changing Ireland (NY 1936); The United Brothers, (Hodges Figgis, 1943).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)