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Sean O'Faolain
Standard Name: O'Faolain, Sean
Birth Name: John Francis Whelan
Used Form: Seán Ò Faoláin
Used Form: Seán Proinsias Ò Faoláin
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia O'Faolain | The anger of Irish writers, JOF
argues, can be traced to the years of official censorship in Ireland (1929-67), as well as to the prudent self-censorship which followed. She recalls how in the 1940s a... |
Textual Production | Julia O'Faolain | Her father, Sean O'Faolain
, had included in his Collected Stories, 1983, a piece whose title reproduces the Yeats phrase exactly: No Country for Old Men. |
Residence | Julia O'Faolain | Just before the Second World War, JOF
's father
decided to move his family from County Wicklow to Killiney, closer to Dublin, for the sake of her education and that of her brother, Stephen. O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson. 313-14 |
Reception | Teresa Deevy | An interview with Deevy, conducted during the dress rehearsal, likened her creative vanquishing of her disability to that of Beethoven
. The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bowen | Sean O'Faolain
, who discovered this novel eight years after it was published, was captivated. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber. 41 O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson. 301 |
Literary responses | Mary Lavin | This volume brought ML
critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson
read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | Both Sean Lucy
in the Irish Independent and Sean O'Faolain
in the Irish Times praised the novel, though with some reservations. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 464 |
Literary responses | Julia O'Faolain | The question that first grabbed the attention of reviewers was that of whether JOF
could equal her famous father, or whether it was just his name that had made her noticed. Sally Beauman
, reviewing... |
Literary responses | Muriel Spark | Penelope Gilliatt
thought the evil in Seton had been to some extent absorbed by Bridges. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 237 Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin. last page |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bowen | Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally) Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 254 |
Friends, Associates | Julia O'Faolain | Living in different countries, JOF
has moved in different literary circles, not all Irish or English. In Florence she and her husband were welcomed into the circle of the cosmopolitan writer Violet Trefusis
at Villa... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bowen | The young Irish writer Sean O'Faolain
(whose work EB
thought highly of) had a passionate affair with her. His daughter wrote that although he made fun of her appearance she was one of the three... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia O'Faolain | Sean O'Faolain
, Julia's father (who began life with the anglicized name of John Whelan), O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber. 2 |
Timeline
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Texts
O’Faolain, Julia, and Sean O’Faolain. “Afterword”. Vive Moi!, edited by Julia O’Faolain and Julia O’Faolain, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993, p. vii - xvi.
O’Faolain, Sean. Constance Markievicz. Sphere, 1967.
O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.