Life
?- ; retired naval officer; son of Protestant Archbishop of Dublin; author of Yours Till Ireland Explodes, Mr Mooney (1973), and Yours Again, Mr Mooney (1974), both published by Blackstaff Press; the title-character
is thousand year-old leprechaun who has fought on both sides of the Irish wars and who hasn’t had a bath since the day that ‘Deirdre of the Sorrows accidentally put him in with her smalls’.
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Criticism
Richard Deutsch, ‘“Within Two Shadows”: The Trouble in Northern Ireland’, in Patrick Rafroidi & Maurice Harmon, eds., The Irish Novel in Our Time (l’Université de Lille 1975-76), pp.132-54; p.146f.
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