Seán O'Faoláin letter to Jon Carroll and typescript foreword, 1946-1964.

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Seán O'Faoláin letter to Jon Carroll and typescript foreword, 1946-1964.

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The collection consists of two items: unpublished typescript foreword by O'Faoláin for Anthony Trollope's The Warden, circa 1946, cut by the publisher for economic reasons; letter to Jon Carroll, 14 Jan. 1964, observing that writers write, and if they are meant to be writers, they continue writing.

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O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991

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Seán O'Faoláin was born John Whelan in County Cork, Ireland; he came from a loyalist family, and initally opposed the Easter Rebellion of 1916, but the excessive force used by the British to suppress the rebellion inspired his sense of Irish nationalism. He took Gaelic lessons and earned a scholarship to University College, Cork, changing his name to the Gaelic form. He studied and worked in America for several years, but was drawn back to Ireland, where he resolved to become a writer. Diverse...

Carroll, Jon,

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

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Trollope was born on Apr. 24, 1815 in London, England; attended Winchester and Harrow; worked as a junior clerk in the General Post Office and was then transferred as a postal surveyor to Ireland; in 1859 he moved back to London, resigning from the civil service in 1867; stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1868; became a novelist, known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels, among others; individual novels include: Barchester Towers (1857), Can you forgive h...