Life
1915- [Malachy Francis Caulfield; Malachi F. Caulfield for fiction; Max Caulfield for commentary; var. M. F. Caulfield]; b. Belfast; The Black City (1952) and The Easter Rebellion, Dublin 1916 (1963), The Irish Mystique (1973), and Ireland (1993), with photos by Joe Cornish. IF2
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Works
The Black City (1952) and The Easter Rebellion, Dublin 1916 (1963; Four Square 1964; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NY: Roberts Rinehart 1995); The Irish Mystique (1973); also Ireland (G&M 1993).
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists The Black City (1952) set in Belfast of 1935; hero is involved with the IRA; his girlfriend wants him to quit. He dies in action; ‘marred by coarseness and irreverence ... does not spare the IRA’ [Clarke].
Books in Print (1994), The Black City, novel (London: J. Cape 1952), 239pp.; Malachy Caulfield/Max Caulfield The Easter Rebellion Four Square 1963, 1964; rep. 1975; rep. G&M 1995; The Irish Mystique Prentice Hall 1973, 253pp.; he Easter Rebellion A Night of Terror, The Story of the Athenia Affair by Max Caulfield [pseud.] Frederick Muller 1958, 222pp.; rev. ed. Pan 1962; Ireland [Philips Travel Guides] G. Philip 1993, 100 col. ill. 0540 01265 3 [also G&M edn. 1993]; also Bruce Lee Lives? (Star Books).
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Quotations
Belfast: ‘It was the Black City because of what is between Protestant and Catholic, between British mongrel and mongrel Irishman, that is, narrow hatred and bigotry. It is not much of a place as cities, go, a nineteenth-century industrial profusion of shipyards and gantries, linen-mills, factory chimneys, flaking pubs, oily river basins and mile after mile of narrow, mean streets … it is an awfully wet place. The wettest place on earth … The rain … persits all day almost every day. It clogs the streets, mixes with the dust to create a fine, gluey mud that adheres to everything.’ (The Black City, London, 1952, p.9; quoted in Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1994, p.88.
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