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Irish literature

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Seán O'Faoláin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS96
Abstract Seán O'Faoláin (1900-1991), born John Whelan, won the Femina Prize nomination for Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories in 1932. His greatest acclaim was as a short story writer and his corpus includes more than a hundred stories, many of which contain accounts of the impact of political turmoil in Ireland. The Seán O'Faoláin Collection includes a manuscript copy of “The Death of Stevey Long.” The manuscript is accompanied by a brief history of the text by O'Faoláin himself and...
Dates: 1930 - 1959; Other: Majority of material found within 1955 - 1959; Other: Date acquired: 03/08/1958