Frank O'Connor

Critical essays

‘Light dying’
Brendan Kennelly

Introduction
Hilary Lennon

Frank O’Connor and critical memory
Nicholas Allen

Frank O’Connor and a vanishing Ireland
Terence Brown

Frank O’Connor and Daniel Corkery
Paul Delaney

Frank O’Connor at Trinity: a reminiscence
Philip Edwards

Frank O’Connor’s American reception: the first decade (1931–41)
Robert C. Evans

Frank O’Connor: reluctant realist
Maurice Harmon

Inside out: a working theory of the Irish short story
John Kenny

Merry men: the afterlife of the poem
Declan Kiberd

Frank O’Connor and the Abbey Theatre
Hilary Lennon

Memories
Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy

Denis Johnston’s Guests of the nation (1935)
Emilie Pine

Frank O’Connor’s autobiographical writings
Ruth Sherry

Frank O’Connor’s ‘Lonely rock’
Michael Steinman

Frank O’Connor on Irish modernism
Carol Taaffe

The interpretation of tradition
Alan Titley