Robert G. Lowery Papers and Collection of Sean O'Casey

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...

Abbey Theatre

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The Abbey Theatre was established in Dublin in 1904 as a venue for Irish playwrights. It developed out of the Irish Literary Theatre, which had been founded by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1899. From the description of Abbey Theatre playbills and related materials, 1907-1955, 1994. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 419521354 The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. From the description of Abbey Theatre collection, ...

Friel, Brian

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Brain Friel, playwright. From the description of Dancing at Lughnasa : typescript. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571424 Brian Friel was born Bernard Patrick Friel on January 9 or 10, 1929, in Omagh, County Tyrone, in northern Ireland. His family moved to Derry in 1939, where Friel attended the Long Tower School and, later, St. Columb's College. He then went to the National Seminary at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth before leaving in 1949 to attend a po...

O'Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984

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Irish novelist. From the description of A fireman's death : corrected manuscript, ca. 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445420 From the description of The tyrant : corrected manuscript, ca. 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122289306 Liam O'Flaherty was born in the Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland on 28 August 1896. He was educated at Rockwell College, Black Rock College and University College Dublin. From 1915 to 1917 O'Flaherty served with the Irish G...

Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958

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Author. From the description of Letter with reply of George Jean Nathan, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983742 Editor of The American Spectator. From the description of Letters signed (17) : New York, to Claire Luce, 1933-1955 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270952693 ...

Lowery, Robert G., 1941-

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Robert G. Lowery was born on July 21, 1941 in Taylor County, Texas. In the 1970s he attended Hosftra University in New York, where he received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in European history. In 1974, while still attending Hofstra as an undergraduate, Lowery founded The Sean O'Casey Review, which ran for eight years, from 1974 to 1982. His other works include Sean O'Casey Centenary Essays (co-edited with David Krause, 1980); Essays on Sean O'Casey’s Autobiographies: Reflections Upon the Mirr...

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...

O'Casey, Eileen.

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Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984

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Drama critic. From the description of Reminiscences of Justin Brooks Atkinson : lecture, [195-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631692 American drama critic educated at Harvard University, Atkinson became a literary editor of the New York Times in 1922 and served as the paper's dramatic critic from 1926 to 1960. From the description of Brooks Atkinson papers, 1925-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612378941 ...