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Life
1921- ; b. Drumcairn, Co. Armagh, ed. St. Patrick’s Public elementary Sch.; went to work at 14, returning to Armagh; stories for The Bell, Argosy, and Chamber’s Journal; notably a novel, Come Day, Go Day (1949), regarded as the best fictional account of Ulster Catholic experience before McLaverty. IF2
Criticism
J. W. Foster, Themes and Forces in Ulster Fiction (1974), remarks on Come Day - Go Day (pp.51-3).
References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists Come Day, Go Day (Dublin: Golden Eagle Bks. 1949), 181pp. ‘Daily round and small duties and pleasures of Catholic working class family ... 1924-38’ [Clarke].
Belfast Public Library holds 1956 holds O’Connor, J., Come Day - Go Day; The Norway Man (1949); Hostage to Fortune (1951).
Notes
Michael McLaverty: O’Connor was the recipient of an appreciative letter from McLaverty, and was also employed as a point of comparison in a review by Dennis Kennedy - ‘Is This Man as Good as O’Connor?’, in Belfast Telegraph (2 Sept. 1965).
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