Supplementary Bibliography of Michael McLaverty - contributed by Michael Crowley (April 1997).

The contents of Sophia Hillan King, ed., In Quiet Places: The Uncollected Stories, Letters and Critical Prose of Michael McLaverty (1989), have been divided into “Letters” and “Articles” in these listings in contrast to the strictly chronological and consecutive order of her compilation.

Works by McLaverty Writings on McLaverty
Letters Articles Articles Reviews
       

Writings by McLaverty

Letters
  • Letters too Julie Kernan [ed. at Longmans] 4 Nov. 1940, p.70; 9 April 1941, p.72.; 2 June 1941, 73.; 23 Nov. 1941, pp.73-74.; 14 Dec. 1942, p.91.; 3 June 1943, pp.91-92.; 4 May 1944, p.100; 15, Dec. 1944, p.103.
  • Letter to Phyllis Neale, editorial assistant at Jonathan Cape Ltd., 5 April 1941, p.71.
  • Letters to Jonathan Cape, 27 Nov. 1944, pp.100-01; 28 Nov. 1944, 102pp.; 20 Aug. 1947, p.107; 4 Nov. 1947, pp.108-09; 25 July 1948, p.121; 1 Jan. 1949, p.128; 25 Jan. 1948, p.137; 13 May 1949, p.140.
  • Letter to John O’Connor [author of Come Day, Go Day], 23 Sept. 1945, p.104.
  • Letter to Padraic Fiacc, Spring 1946, p.106.
  • Letters to Dr Cathal B. Daly [lecturer in Department of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast; afterwards Cardinal], 2 Nov. 1947, pp.109-110; 8 May 1948, p.120.
  • Letters to D.A. Garrity [President of Devin-Adair, NY], 17 Nov. 1947, pp.110-11; 24 Aug. 1948, pp.125-26.
  • Letters to Daniel Corkery, 1948, p.127; New Year 1952, pp.159-61; 9 Aug. 1954, pp.179-80.
  • Letter to Horace Reynolds [American critic and reviewer], 16 Jan. 1949, pp.128-30.
  • Letter to David Marcus [ed. “Irish Writing”, 21 Nov. 1948, p.136; 29 June 1952, p.167.
  • Letter to Fr. Joe Conboy [friend of McLaverty family], 20 April 1948, pp.137-40.
  • Letter to John Pudney [editor of New Writing], 31 Dec. 1949, p.141.
  • Letter to Cecil Scott, 26 Nov. 1951, p.159; 1 June 1953, p.173; 19 June 1953, pp.173-74; 2 Nov. 1953, 174-75; 6 Dec. 1953, p.175; 31 Dec. 1953, pp.175-76; 13 March 1966, pp.218-20.
  • Letter to the Editors, “Q” [Queen’s University, Belfast], 29 April 1952, p.164.
  • Letters to John McGahern, 23 Jan. 1959, pp.195-96; letters to John McGahern, 30 Jan. 1961 pp.199-200; 23 March 1961, pp.200-01; letters to John McGahern, 27 Sept. 1962, pp.205-06; 25 Nov. 1962, 206-07pp.; 26 May 1963, 207-08pp.; letters to John McGahern, Aug. 1964, p.210; 15 Jan. 1965, pp.210-11; 23 May 1965, pp.217-18.
  • Letter to Mary Harris [novelist and children’s writer], 22 April 1959 pp.196-99.
  • Letter to Sybil Hutchinson [Canadian academic], 15 May 1961, pp.201-02.
  • Letter to Sister Mary Edna, Milford, Connecticut [Mercy nun, writing research paper on McLaverty], 23 Jan. 1962, pp.203-05.
  • Letter to Brian Friel, 29 Nov. 1963, pp.208-09.
  • Letters to Elizabeth Schnack [his German translator], 27 May 1969, pp.226-27; 5 June 1969, pp.227-28.
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    Articles
  • 'The Novel’ [unpublished essay, 1941], pp.77-78.
  • 'On Modern Poetry’ [unpublished note in journal on ‘self-conscious attitudizing’ in modern poetry], pp.78-79.
  • 'To The Lighthouse’ [unpublished critical look at the novel]. pp.79.
  • 'Belfast 1941 - After the Blitz’ [a note in journal], pp.84-85.
  • 'Gerard Manley Hopkins’ [Notes for a Talk Delivered to the Belfast Group P.E.N., / The Society of Authors, May 1944, pp.93-99.
  • 'The Novel and the Short Story’ [unpublished essay], 1947, pp.112-113.
  • 'The Young Poets’ [The PEN in Ulster, Belfast 1942] [q.p.].
  • 'Michael McLaverty Explains His Methods in Writing as he Sketches Background of The Three Brothers’, in , Forecast, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 1948, 6-7;*
  • 'Letter to a Young Novelist’, in The Key, London 1948 [q.pp.];*
  • 'Francois Mauriac’ [journal note on centrality of cross in that author’s fiction] 1949, p.133.
  • 'On Writing a Novel’ [journal note] 1949, p.135.
  • 'Night and Day: A Note on Literature’ [talk delivered at QUB English Society, 2 Dec. 1949, pp.142-48.
  • 'Idea for a Novel’ [unpublished notes for The Brightening Day] pp.153-54.
  • 'Commentary on Short Story Competition’, in Q [Queen’s University, Belfast], 1952 [q.p.];*
  • 'Hemingway’ [a brief journal note on Ernest Hemingway, making reference to Chekhov, Forrest Reid and Tolstoy], 1953, p.171.
  • 'On Writing’ [journal note on ‘how to use words in a significant or imaginative way’], 1953, p.172.
  • 'My Method in Writing Prose’ [journal note on ‘the associative subtlety and depth’.
  • of words] 1954, p.177.
  • 'A Note on Katherine Mansfield’, in Belfast Telegraph, 15 Jan. 1955 [q.p.];*
  • 'The Short Story’ [journal note on ‘short stories dealing with childhood’], 26 June 1955, p.187.
  • 'Anton Chekov - a Man of Sympathy and a Gentle, Ironic Humour’, in Belfast Telegraph, 5 Nov. 1955 [q.pp.].
  • 'Notes for a Talk on K. Mansfield and K.A. Porter’, March 1965, Galway Literary Society, pp.212-16.
  • 'Notes for a Talk to a Young Writers’ Group [Monaghan, 24 July 1967], pp.221-25.
  • 'Autobiographical Fragment’ [unpublished note on ‘The Wild Duck’s Nest’ and Katherine Mansfield] 1978, pp.229-30.
  • 'Four Ducks on a Pond’ [Preliminary Notes for an Autobiography; early memories and thoughts on travel and religion 1982, pp.230-31.
  • Excerpt from Call My Brother Back, in The Rattle of the North: An Anthology of Ulster Prose, ed. Patricia Craig, (Belfast: Blackstaff 1992), pp.296-301.
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    *It is unclear whether those with asterisks appear in Sophia Hillan King, ed., op. cit. (1989)

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    Writings on McLaverty

    Articles on McLaverty [alphabetical by author]
  • Eileen Battersby, ‘Death of Michael McLaverty’ [obituary tribute], in The Irish Times (21 March 1992).
  • John Boyd, ‘Ulster Prose’, in The Arts in Ulster, ed. Sam Hanna Bell et al., London 1951, pp. 99-130.
  • James M. Cahalan, review of Hillan King’s The Silken Twine, Eire-Ireland, (Winter 1993), 152-154.
  • Brian Donnelly, ‘Michael McLaverty: An Appraisal’, Irish Press, March 2 1974.
  • St John Ervine, ‘Mr McLaverty’s Clocking Hen’, Belfast Telegraph, 10 Aug. 1945.
  • Padraic Fiacc, ‘Good and Evil: Prolegomenon to a Study of McLaverty’s Work’, in Irish Bookman, 1, 5, (Dec. 1946), 37-41.
  • John Wilson Foster, ‘McLaverty’s People’, in Eire-Ireland, 4, (Fall 1971), pp.92-105.
  • Robert Greacen, ‘Writing in Wartime Belfast’, in The Irish Times (16 March 1976).
  • Robert Greacen, ‘Some Memories of Michael McLaverty’, Martello Arts Review (Winter 1992), pp.16-20.
  • Seamus Heaney, Introduction to The Collected Short Stories of Michael McLaverty (Dublin: Poolbeg 1978), pp.7-9.
  • Seamus Heaney, Michael McLaverty [obituary tribute] in Fortnight Supplement (2 May 1992), p.31.
  • Rev Matthew Hoehn, OSB, Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches 1930-1947, Newark, New Jersey 1947 [q.p.].
  • Jack Holland, review of The Silken Twine: A Study of the Works of Michael McLaverty by Sophia Hillan King, in The Irish Times (3 Oct. 1992).
  • Blanche Mary Kelly, ‘Michael McLaverty’, in The Voice of the Irish [NY] (1952).
  • Dennis Kennedy, ‘Is This Man as Good as O’Connor?’, in Belfast Telegraph (2 Sept. 1965).
  • Benedict Kiely, ‘Michael McLaverty: The Thorn in the Water’, in Hibernia, 34 (17 July 1970) p. 11.
  • Sophia Hillan King, ‘Conscience and the Novelist: Michael McLaverty’s Journals and Critical Writings of the Forties’, in Studies, 78, 309, (Spring 1989), pp.58-71.
  • Sophia Hillan King, intro. to King, ed., In Quiet Places: The Uncollected Stories, Letters and Critical Prose of Michael McLaverty, Dublin: Poolbeg 1989) [q.pp.].
  • Sophia Hillan King, ‘Quiet Desperation: Variations on a Theme in the Writings of Daniel Corkery, Michael McLaverty and John McGahern’, in Aspects of Irish Studies, ed. Myrtle Hill & Sarah Barber (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1990), pp.39-46.
  • Sophia Hillan King, ‘The Millstone and the Star, Regionalism as Strength’, in Linenhall Review (Autumn 1994) [q.p.].
  • Augustine Martin, ‘Inherited Dissent: The Dilemma of the Irish Writer’, in Studies, 54, (Spring 1965), pp.1-20.
  • Abigail Q. McCarthy, ‘Catholic Literature and Two Irishmen’, in Today ( Christmas 1947), p.16.
  • Roy McFadden, ‘A Note on Contemporary Ulster Writing’, in Northman, XIV, 2, (Winter 1946), pp.20-26.
  • John McGahern, ‘A Poet Who Worked in Prose’ [obit. tribute], in Irish Independent (21 March 1992).
  • H. A. McHugh, CSSR, DCL, ‘Michael McLaverty, Novelist’, in The Redemptorist Record, XV, 4, (July-Aug. 1951), pp.98-100.
  • Sean McMahon, ‘The Black North: Prose Writers of the North of Ireland’, in Threshold, 21 (Summer 1967), pp.158-74.
  • Sean O’Faolain, ‘A Northern Laureate’, in Irish Press (13 March 1976).
  • Joseph Tomelty, ‘The Best Books on Ulster’, in The Bell, 4, 4 (July 1942) [q.p.]
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    See also dissertations -
  • John Wilson Foster, “Separation and Return in the Fiction of Brian Moore, Michael McLaverty and Benedict Kiely” [PhD dissertation] (Oregon Univ. 1970).
  • Sophia Hillan King, “Explorations of Fictional Form: Michael McLaverty’s Stories, Novels and Criticism 1932-1950” [PhD thesis] (QUB 1987).
  • Sophia Hillan King, The Silken Twine: A Study of the Works of Michael McLaverty (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1992).
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    Individual Reviews [by title ]
    Call My Brother Back
    • Anon, ‘A Northern Novel: Belfast Writer’s Fine Work’, in Irish Independent ( 16 May 1939).
    • Anon., ‘A Fine Irish Novel’ [q.source] (30 May 1939); Anon., in The Irish Times ( 1 Jan. 1940).
    • John Brophy, ‘The Irish Troubles’, in Daily Telegraph (7 July 1939).
    • William A. Dowd, America [NY] (15 April 1939).
    • Kimball Flaccus, ‘An Ulster Boyhood Revealed By a Talented Young Writer’, in Sun [NY] (26 Feb. 1939).
    • J. E. Keating, S.J., [n.t.] in Indiana Catholic Review, March 1939; F. MacM[anus], [n.t.] in Irish Monthly (July 1939).
    • Shaemas O’Shael, [n.t.] in New York Herald Tribune (12 March 1939).
    • Elizabeth Pennell, ‘A Poet and Peasants’, in San Francisco Chronicle (30 April 1939).
    • Horace Reynolds, ‘The Irish Troubles’, in New York Times (26 Feb. 1939).
    • Doreen Wallace, ‘Present and Past: From Ireland to Virginia’, in The Sunday Times (7 May 1939).
    Lost Fields
    • Anon., Books of the Month, March 1942.
    • John Hewitt, in The Bell, IV, 4, (July 1942), pp.303-04.
    • Edwin Muir, ‘New Novels’, in The Listener ( 23 April 1942).
    In This Thy Day
    • Walter Allen, [n.t.] in Time and Tide (25 Aug. 1945).
    • Anon., ‘Tragedy With Smiles’, in Times Literary Supplement ( 7 July 1945).
    • John Flynn, ‘Tenderness and Terror in County Down’, in Chicago Tribune (8 March 1947).
    • Oliver St John Gogarty, ‘Mirror of Irish Rural Life’, in Inquirer [Philadelphia] (20 April 1947).
    • Kathleen Hoagland, in [NY] (1 March 1945).
    • Roy McFadden, in Dublin Magazine (Oct.-Dec. 1945).
    • David Marshall, [n.t.] in Commonweal (16 May 1947), rep. in Irish Bookman (Sept. 1947).
    • Andrea Parke, ‘Stars Over Ireland’, in New York Times (16 March 1947).
    • Henry Reed, ‘New Novels’, in The New Statesman and Nation (22 Sept. 1945), p.200.
    The Three Brothers
    • Anon., ‘Quiet Tale of Irish Life’, in St Louis Star-Times (15 Sept. 1948).
    • Anon., [n.t.] in America (13 Nov. 1948).
    • J. J. Campbell, ‘The Printed Page’, BBC radio broadcast (23 Nov. 1948).
    • Maurice James Craig, Radio Eireann broadcast (25 Nov. 1948).
    • Temple Lane, ‘The Silken Twine’, in The Irish Times [q.d.] 1948.
    • Orville Prescott, in New York Times (25 Aug. 1948).
    Truth in the Night
    • Anon., [n.t.] in The Irish Times (15 March 1952); David Marcus, ‘From Joyce to Joyce’, in Irish Writing, 18 (March 1952), pp.44-49.
    School For Hope
    • Anon., [n.t.] in Times Literary Supplement (2 July 1954).
    • Teresa Deevy, [n.t.], in Dublin Magazine, XXX, 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1954), pp.79-80.
    The Choice
  • Anon., in Times Literary Supplement (29 Aug. 1958).
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    The Brightening Day:
    • Anon., in The Belfast Telegraph (2 Sept. 1965).
    • Martin Elias, in Best Sellers (1 June 1965).
    • “CH”, ‘An Ulster Novel of Today’, in Irish News (24 Aug. 1965).
    • Martin Levin, in New York Times (18 July 1965).
    Short Story Collections
    • Anon., review of The Game Cock and Other Stories, in The New Yorker (July 1947).
    • Orville Prescott, review of The Game Cock and Other Stories, in New York Times (13 Aug. 1947).
    • Marie Scott-James, review of The Game Cock and Other Stories, in Observer (3 July 1949).
    • Robert Greacen, review of The White Mare and Other Stories, in The Bell, VII, 5, (Feb. 1944), pp.449-50.
    • Kate O’Brien, review of The White Mare and Other Stories, in The Spectator (7 Jan. 1944).
    • “R.G.”, review of The White Mare and Other Stories, in Lagan, 2 (1944), pp.102-04.
    Poems Dedicated To Michael McLaverty
    • Padraic Fiacc, “North Man”, in The Selected Padraic Fiacc (Belfast 1979), p.8.
    • Seamus Heaney, “Fosterage”, in New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (London: Faber & Faber 1990), p.89.
    • Roy McFadden, “Letter to an Irish Novelist”in Flowers For a Lady (London 1945), p.45; “Second Letter to an Irish Novelist”, in Threshold, 21, (Summer 1967), pp.82-83; “D-Day”, in A Watching Brief (Belfast 1979), pp.33-34; McFadden, “Reunion”, in Letters to the Hinterland ( Dublin 1986) [q.p.].


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