Life
1907-1952; b. Belfast; isssued a play, The Jarvey, the first of many; other works incl. Stirabout from an Ulster Pot(1934) and More Stirabout (1934), medley of verse and prose; also Collected Poems (1951) and plays incl. Yanks from Ulster [q.d.]; Johnny Comes Marching Home (1936) and The Land Girl (1946). IF2 DIL2
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Works
Prose & Verse, The Dream of Things: Poems (Belfast: Quota 1929), 40pp.; Stirabout from an Ulster Pot (Belfast: Quota 1934), 191pp., [port.], prose & verse; More Stirabout from an Ulster Pot (Belfast: Quota 1934); Plus Fours and No Breakfast: A Belfast Story (Belfast: Quota 1937) [BML 1938], 66pp.; The Cub Reporter, A Story for Boys and Girls (Belfast: Quota 1948), 132pp.; Collected Poems (Belfast: Quota 1951), 103pp.
Plays, Johnny Comes Marching Home: An Ulster Comedy in Three Acts (Belfast: Quota 1946), 71pp.; The Land Girl: An Ulster Comedy in Three Acts (Belfast: Quota 1946), 104pp.; Tapsy Toosey: A Comedy in Three Acts (Belfast: H. R. Carter 1950), 60pp.; One Minute from Sea: An Ulster Comedy in Two Acts (Belfast: H. R. Carter 1951), 33pp.; Fair Exchange: A Comedy in One Act (Belfast: H. R. Carter 1951).
Miscellaneous, Alfred Kerr, Four Irish Pictures, with word pictures by Ruddick Millar (Guernsey: [?]Star Gazette [1938]).
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists The Cub Reporter (Belfast: Quota 1948), slight story for boys; Stirabout from an Ulster Pot (Belfast: Quota 1934); More Stirabout ... &c. (Belfast: Quota 1934); Plus Fours and No Beakfast (Belfast: Quota 1937). IF2
British Library holds The Cub Reporter, A Story for Boys and Girls (Belfast: Quota 1948), 132pp.; Plus Fours and No Breakfast, A Belfast Story (Belfast: Quota 1937) [BML [1938], 66pp.; Stirabout from an Ulster Pot (Belfast: Quota 1934), 191pp., [port.], prose and verse; More Stirabout from an Ulster Pot (Belfast: Quota 1934); The Dream of Things, Poems (Belfast: Quota 1929), 40pp.; Collected Poems (Belfast: Quota 1951), 103pp.; Fair Exchange, a comedy in one-act [Carter’s Irish Plays] (Belfast: H. R. Carter 1955); Johnny Comes Marching Home, an Ulster comedy in 3 acts (Belfast: Quota 1946), 71pp.; The Land Girl, an Ulster comedy in 3 acts (Belfast: Quota [1946]), 104pp.; One Minute from Sea, an Ulster comedy in 2 acts [Carter Play Series] (Belfast: H. R. Carter 1951), 33pp.; “Tapsy Toosey”, a comedy in 3 acts (Belfast: H. R. Carter [1950]), 60pp.; Four Irish Pictures, by Alfred Kerr, word pictures by Ruddick Millar(Guernsey: [?]Star Gazette [1938]).
Belfast Central Public Library holds Collected Poems (1931) [?err. for 1951]; The Dream of Things (1929); Fair Exchange (1955); Four Irish Pictures [n.d.]; Johnny comes Marching Home [n.d.]; The Land Girl [n.d.]; More Stirabout (1934); One Minute from Sea (1951); Tappytoosey (1950); A Yank from Ulster [n.d.].
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