Hollywood Irish memoir reveals a storyteller who delighted

reveals a storyteller who delighted in the colourful characters he encountered

highly influential ‘Poet’s Journal’ (The Bell

Several of these are collected here

frank diary entries and political passion has contributed to the mystique of this Protestant revolutionary and founding father of Irish republicanism

Hollywood Irish memoir reveals a storyteller who delightedIn the course of a 1935 USA Abbey Theatre tour of the plays of Sean OCasey and others, an extensive collaboration was launched between director John Ford (My real name is Sean Martin Aloysius OFeeney), fresh from shooting OFlahertys The Informer, and star players such as Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald and his brother Arthur Shields. Tempted by movie contracts, these great stage actors resettled in Hollywood and became members of what was informally