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Nationality
  
Irish


Name
  
Brinsley MacNamara

Role
  
Writer


Born
  
John Weldon6 September 1890Hiskinstown, Delvin, Co. Westmeath, Ireland (
1890-09-06
)

Pen name
  
Brinsley MacNamara, Oliver Blythe

Occupation
  
Novelist, playwright, actor, critic

Notable works
  
The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Look at the Heffernans! (1926)

Died
  
February 4, 1963, Sandymount, Republic of Ireland

Books
  
The Valley of the Squinting, The Clanking of Chains, In Clay and in Bronze: A Study i, The Various Lives of, The Clanking of Chains

Literary movement
  

John Weldon (6 September 1890 – 4 February 1963; alternatively "A. E. Weldon"), known by his pen- and stage-name Brinsley MacNamara, was an Irish writer, playwright, and the registrar of the National Gallery of Ireland. He is the author of several novels, the most well-known of which was his first, The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918). His acting career with the Abbey Theatre began in September 1910 with a role in R. J. Ryan's The Casting-out of Martin Whelan.

MacNamara is still best known for his first novel, The Valley of the Squinting Windows, which caused a furore in his native Westmeath on its publication. He continued to write for many years after this controversial first work. Among his plays are The Glorious Uncertainty (1923) and Look at the Heffernans! (1926).

MacNamara married Helena Degidon, a schoolteacher, in 1920. He died at his home on Gilford Drive in Sandymount, County Dublin in February 1963.

Partial list of works

  • The Valley of the Squinting Windows, novel (1918)
  • In Clay and in Bronze, novel (1919/1920), published as The Irishman: A Novel under another pseudonym, Oliver Blyth.
  • The Clanking of Chains: A Story of Sinn Fein, novel (1919)
  • The Mirror in the Dusk, novel (1921)
  • The Glorious Uncertainty, play (1923)
  • Look at the Heffernans!, play (1926)
  • The Various Lives of Marcus Igoe, novel (1929)
  • The Smiling Faces, short stories (1929)
  • Margaret Gillan, play (1933)
  • Marks and Mabel, play (1945)
  • References

    Brinsley MacNamara Wikipedia


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