Research Catalog

Title

Blasts and benedictions : articles and stories / by Sean O'Casey ; selected and introduced by Ronald Ayling.

Author

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

Publication

• London ; Melbourne ; Toronto : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1967.
• Bungay, Suffolk : Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd.
• ©1967

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ayling, Ronald, 1932-
• Macmillan & Co., publisher.
• St. Martin's Press, publisher.
• Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), printer.

Description

xx, 314 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Short stories, Irish > 20th century
• Irish essays > 20th century
• Social medicine
• Delivery of Health Care
• Sociology, Medical
• Short stories, Irish
• Civilization
• Ireland > Civilization
• Ireland > Fiction
• United States
• Ireland

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Romans.

Bibliography (note)

• Inclues bibliographical footnotes and index.

Source (note)

• Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 for the Milberg Irish Playwrights Collection.

Contents

• Playwright and box office (1938) -- Behind the curtained world (1942) -- The theatre and the politician (1945) -- The play of ideas (1950) -- Melpomene an' Thalia beggin' for bread (1958) -- Shakespeare among the flags (1964) -- John Millington Synge (1946) -- One of the world's dramatists (1943) -- Dramatis personae ibsenisensis (1932) -- Not waiting for Godot (1956) -- Mr. Wesker's March past (1963) -- The bald primaquerra (1964) -- Art is the song of life (1960) -- An Irishman's plays (1957) -- A word before curtain-rise (1954) -- The plough and the stars: A reply to the critics (1926) -- Nationalism and The plough and the stars (1926) -- The plough and the stars in retrospect (1960) -- W.B. Yeats and The silver tassie (1928) -- The silver tassie (1928) -- Blasphemy and The silver tassie: A reply to Dublin critics (1935) -- From within the gates (1934) -- Within the gates and without (1934).
• (Cont.) The church tries to close the gates (1935) -- Badtime story (c. 1955) -- O'Casey in Hungarian costume (1957) -- O'Casey's drama-bonfire (1957) -- Cockadoodle doo (1958) -- On the banks of the bBan (1963) -- What thou seest, write in a book (c. 1950) -- Empty vessels (1942) -- Censorship (1945) -- Literature in Ireland (1939) -- Ireland's silvery shadow (1946) -- Melpomene in Ireland (1947) -- G.B.S. speaks out of the whirlwind (1934) -- Shaw's primrose path (1952) -- A Protestant Bridget (1946) -- A sprig of rosemary among the laurel (1962) -- The Gaelic black-headed boy (1945) -- A prophet in the theatre (1938) -- A miner's dream of home (1934) -- Charles Lever's stormy life (1939) -- Great man, Gorki! (19416) -- London passes by (1926) -- Hyde Park orator (1934) -- There go the Irish (1944) -- Crabbed age and youth (1957) -- The day the worker blows a bugle (1958) -- Resurgam (1960).
• Toreador (1933) -- Dum vivimus vivamus (1934) -- The dog (1943).

LCCN

66016761

OCLC

• ocm00940174
• 940174
• SCSB-14632565

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library