Shaw Desmond
Life 1877-1960; b. Dungarvin, Co. Waterford; novelist and dramatist;lived in London; m. Karen Ewald, Norwegian writer; many writings include history, poetry and psychical research, and travel books such as The Windjammer: The Book of the Horn (1932); also The Drama of Sinn Féin (1923). IF2
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Works
- Fru Danmark (1917).
- The Danish Peoples High School (1918).
- Irland, [trans.] af Kai Friis-Møller (1918).
- The Soul of Denmark (1918).
- Democracy: A Novel (London: Sidgwick
& Jackson 1919), v, 304pp.; Passion: A Human Story (1920).
- Labour:
the Giant with the Feet of Clay (1921).
- Bodies and Souls (1922).
- Citizenship (London: Hoddder & Stoughton 1922), vi., 428pp.; London Nights of Long Ago (1927), 28 ills.; The Drama of Sinn Féin (London: Collins & Sons 1923), xx, 424pp., pls.; Echo (1927).
- Gods: A Novel (1921).
- My Country: A Play in Four Acts (1921).
- The Isle of Ghosts (1925).
- Ragnarok (1926).
- Tales of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis (London: G. Richards & H. Toulmin 1929), 319pp., wood-engravings by Ann Gillmore Carter.
- The Love-Diary of a Boy (1930).
- Stars and Stripes: Impressions of America (London: Hutchinson 1932), 302pp., port.
- The Story of a Light Lady (London: T. Werner Laurie 1932; 1933), 312pp.
- Windjammer: The Book of the Horn (London: Hutchinson 1932), 414pp., ill. [99 photos.].
- London Pride (1936).
- God -? (1936).
- The Tale of a Coat [Burberry Ltd.] (1933).
- We Do Not Die: on Spiritualism and Reincarnation (1934).
- African Log (London: Hutchinson 1935), 282pp., ill., photographs & verse by the author; front. from a drawing by Alfred Palmer.
- World-birth (London: Methuen 1938), xv, 404pp.
- Chaos: A Novel (London: Hutchinson 1938), 484pp.
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- Reincarnation for Everyman (1939; 1950), 243pp.
- After Sudden Death [2nd edn.] (1939).
- Life and Foster Freeman (London: Hutchinson 1940), 518pp.
- Spiritualism? (1941).
- How You Live When You Die: A Guide to the Next World (1942; 1950).
- You and God (1943).
- You Can Speak with Your Dead (London & NY: Rider 1941; 1945), 103pp.
- Incarnate Isis (1941)
[fiction].
- Black Dawn (London: Hutchinson 1944), 223pp.
- Love fter Death (1944).
- Jesus or Paul? (1945).
- Paradise Row: A Novel of the Second World War (London: Hutchinson 1946), 272pp.
- Nobody Has Ever Died (1946).
- Spiritualism [by] Shaw Desmond [for] & C. E. M. Joad [against] (1946), ports.
- The Story of Adam Verity (1947).
- My Adventures in the Occult (1947).
- The Edwardian Story (London: Rockliff [1949]), x, 356pp., ill. ports.
- Nathaniel (1950).
- Personality and Power (1950), pls.
- The Edwardian Story (1950), pls. & ports.
- Psychic Pitfalls (1950).
- Pilgrim to Paradise: An Autobiography (London: Rider 1951), 272pp., port.
- Love by the Dark Water (1952).
- Irish Moon (London: Hutchinson 1953), 240pp.
- Adam and Eve: a Guide to Sex and Marriage (1954).
- Gods Englishman (1956).
- Healing: Psychic and Divine (1956)
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References Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists Gods (1921); Isle of Ghosts (1925) [a hectic story of Irish Revolution, 1916]; Echo (1927) [Roman orgies under Nero]; Nathaniel (1950) [autobiog. of a child with West British and Protestant parents who experiments with various forms of religion and culture in London]; Love of Dark Water (1952) [a historical novel set on the Blackwater; impossible brogue acc. Clarke]; Irish Moon (1953) [romantic tale of love, sea, and gallows set in 19th c. Waterford]; Clarke considers his works mostly romances in which authenticity is sacrificed to effect.
Eggeley Books (Cat. 44) lists Echo: Roman orgies under Nero (Duckworth 1927), viii, 9-287pp., a story of incarnation in Roman times, with some Irish content; also lists author-inscribed copy of Frederick Kaigh, Witchcraft and Magic of Africa, with foreword by Montague Summers (Richard Lesley 1947).
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