Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art records

Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

Quinn, Owen

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Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Johnston, Denis, 1901-1984

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Irish dramatist, author, journalist, and theater director; b. William Denis Johnston; d. 1984. From the description of Denis Johnston collection, 1917-1955. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968752 Denis Johnston was an Irish playwright and writer. He was born in Dublin and educated at Dublin, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Harvard Law School, receiving an M.A. and LL.M. from Cambridge in 1926. He became interested in playwriting while he was at Harvard. Upon his return t...

Envoy (Dublin)

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Begun by John Ryan, a Dublin artist, Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, published the work of a broad range of writers, including Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Anton Chekhov (in translation), Padraic Colum, Anthony Cronin, Aidan Higgins, Pearse Hutchinson, Maria Jolas (in translation), Patrick Kavanagh, who wrote the monthly "Diary," Mary Lavin, Ethel Mannin, Lionel Miskin, Brian O'Nolan, Edward Sheehy, Francis Stuart, Patrick Swift, Arland Ussher, Thomas Woods, and many others. Envoy was t...

Iremonger, Valentin

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O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966

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Flann O'Brien was born as Brian O'Nolan on October 5, 1911, in Strabane, Ireland to Michael Vincent O'Nolan and Agnes (Gormley) O’Nolan. O’Brien was the third oldest, with eleven siblings: Gearóid, Ciarán, Roisin, Fergus, Kevin, Maeve, Nessa, Nuala, Sheila, Niall, and Micheál. O'Brien attended Synge Street Christian Brothers School then Blackrock College, where he was taught English by the President of the College, and future Archbishop, John Charles McQuaid. McQuaid helped O’Brien publish his f...

MacManus, Seumas, 1869-1960

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Stuart, Francis, 1902-2000

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Henry Francis Stuart was an Irish poet whose books were praised by William Butler Yeats and Poetry Magazine in Chicago. He lectured on modern English and Irish literature at Berlin University in the 1930's and in 1958 relocated to County Meath, Ireland. As a young man he served time for arms smuggling during the Irish civil war. The solitude and his conviction cementing his ambition to be an artist. The collector, Geoffrey Elborn, was born on February 27, 1950 in Scotland and had an extensive pr...

Lavin, Mary, 1912-1996

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Irish author, farmer, and teacher; b. in the U.S.; d. 1996. From the description of Mary Lavin collection, 1935-1976. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968403 Mary Lavin, author of exquisitely told short stories, was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts on June 11, 1912. When she was ten, her parents moved to Ireland. She was educated at Loreto Convent, Stephen's Green, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland at Dublin, where her M.A. thesis on Jane Austen won...

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972

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Padraic Colum was a noted playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and author of books for children. Born on December 8, 1881, in Longford, Ireland, Colum came to the United States in 1914 and died on January 12, 1972, in Enfield, Connecticut. Though Colum worked briefly for a railroad, he became a full-time writer in Dublin, Ireland, in 1901. He was a founder of the Irish National Theatre (later known as the Abbey Theatre), and co-founder and editor for a time of the Irish Review. From...

Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967

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Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

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James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an Irish-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet, and literary critic. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago and published his first short story in 1929. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy and for his A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character. From the guide to the James T. Farrell Collection, 1953-1961, (Special Colle...

Hillman, J. K.

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Behan, Brendan

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Irish playwright, author and poet. From the description of Brendan Behan letters, 1960-1961. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 50316521 ...

Ussher, Arland

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Percy Arland Ussher or Percival Arland Ussher (1899 September 9 - 1980 December 24) was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator. Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University. In 1926 he published a translation of The Midnight Court by the Irish Gaelic-language poet, Brian Merriman. He published The Face and Mind of Ireland (1949) and Three Great Irishmen (1952), a comparitive study of Shaw, Yeats, and Joyce. He moved to County Waterford to manage the family farm before ...