Life
1928- ; ed. UCG, PhD 1971; has published a Literary History of Ireland (1969); The Story of Anglo-Irish Poetry; A Book of Irish Curse (Mercier 1974); trans. Myles na Gopaleen [pseud. of Flann O’Brien/Brian O’Nolan, q.v.], An Beal Bocht, as The Poor Mouth (London: Hart-Davis 1964; MacGibbon & Kee
1973; Paladin 1993); trans and ed. bilingual edn. of Midnight Court (1999).
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Works
Translations, Myles na Gopaleen [Flann O’Brien], An Beal Bocht / The Poor Mouth (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1941); Do. (London: Hart-Davis 1964), 128pp., ill. by Ralph Steadman; Do. (London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1973), ill. [maps on lining paper]; and Do. [rep. edn.] (London: Paladin 1993); trans., Merriman’s The Midnight Court (Cork Mercier 1971; rep. 1991), 96pp. [Irish and English texts facing].
Criticism, The Story of Anglo-Irish Poetry (1800-1922) (Cork: Mercier Press, 1967), 187pp. [Bibl. 181-82]; A Literary History of Ireland (Cork: Mercier 1969), 191pp. [Bibl. p.187].
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