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BIBLIOGRAPHY BACKGROUND Arnold, Bruce. A Concise History 0/ Irish Art. New York &: Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Beckett. J. C. The Making 0/ Modern Ireland. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Carroll, Joseph T. Ireland in the War Years, 1939-1945. Newton Abbot : David &: Charles; New York: Crane, Russak, 1975. Connell, Kenneth Hugh. Irish Peasant Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Craig, Maurice. Dublin 1660-1860. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1969. Croker, Thomas Crofton. Fairy Legends and Traditions in the South 0/ Ireland. 3 vols. London: Murray, 1825-1828. Cullen, L. M. An Economic History 0/ Ireland Since 1660. New York: Barnes &: Noble, 1973. Curtis, Edmund. A History of Ireland, London: Methuen, 1950. ---. A History 0/ Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Maunsel &: Roberts, 1923; revised, London, 1938. Deutsch, Richard R. Northern Ireland 1921-1974: A Select Bibliography. New York &:London: Garland, 1975. Dillon, Myles, ed. Early Irish Society. Dublin, 1954. Edwards, R. Dudley . Ireland in the Age 0/ the Tudors. London: Croom Helm; New York: Barnes &: Noble, 1977. Edwards, Ruth Dudley. An Atlas 0/ Irish History. London: Methuen, 1973. Evans, E. E. Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland. London &: New York, 1966. Farrell, Brian, ed, The Irish Parliamentary Tradition. Dublin: Gill &: Macmillan; New York : Barnes &: Noble, 1973. Kee, Robert. The Green Flag: A History 0/ Irish Nationalism. New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. Lyons, F.S.L. Ireland Since the Famine. London: Weidenfeld &: Nicolson, 1971; re- vised, 1973. Macardle, Dorothy. The Irish Rising. London: Gollancz, 1937. MacCurtain, Margaret. Tudor and Stuart Ireland. Dublin &: London, 1972. Martin, F. X., ed, Leaders and Men 0/ the 1916 Rising. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni­ versity Press, [1967]. 743 744 BIBLIOGRAPHY Moody, T. W., Martin, F. X., and Byrne, F. J., eds. A New History of Ireland. This projected series of nine volumes is appearing under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and will be published by the Clarendon Press. Volume 3, Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691, appeared in 1976. Murphy, John Augustine. Ireland in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan, 1975. O'Brien, Conor Cruise. States of Ireland. London: Hutchinson; New York: Pantheon, 1972. O'Faolain, Sean. The Irish. West Drayton, Middlesex: Penguin, 1947. O'Sullivan, Donal. Irish Folk Music and Song. Dublin: CulturalRelations Committee, 1952. Otway-Ruthven, A. J. A History of Medieval Ireland. London: Benn; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968. Praeger, Robert Lloyd. Natural History of Ireland. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972. Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1962]. GENERAL LITERARY HISTORY Best, Richard I. Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Irish Printed Literature. Dub­ lin: Stationery Office, 1913. ---.Bibliography of Irish Philology and Manuscript Literature: Publications 1913- 1941. Dublin: Institutefor Advanced Studies, 1942. Boyd, Ernest A. Ireland's Literary Renaissance. Dublin: Maunsel, 1916; Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1969. Brown, Malcolm. The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to W. B. Yeats. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972. Brown, Stephen J. A Guide to Books on Ireland. Part I. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1912; reprint, New York: Lema, 1970. (No Part II was ever issued.) Cleeve, Brian. Dictionary of Irish Writers. 3 vols. Cork: Mercier Press, 1967, 1969, 1971. Costello, Peter. The Heart Grown Brutal. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1977. de Blacam, Aodh. Gaelic Literature Surveyed. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1929; revised, 1974. Fallis, Richard. The Irish Renaissance. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1977. Finneran, Richard, ed. Anglo-Irish Literature, a Review of Research. New York: Mod- ern Language Association of America, 1976. Gwynn, Stephen. Irish Literature and Drama. New York: Nelson, 1936. Howarth, Herbert. The Irish Writers, 1880-1940. London: Rockcliff, 1958. Hyde, Douglas. A Literary History of Ireland. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. MacDonagh, Thomas. Literature in Ireland. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1916. McKenna, Brian. Irish Literature, 1800-1875, A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978. McSweeney, Patrick M. A Group of Nation-Builders: O'Donovan, O'Curry, Petrie. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1913. Mercier, Vivian. The Irish Comic Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. O'Connor, Frank. The Backward Look. A Survey of Irish Literature. London: Mac­ millan, 1967; published in the United States as A Short History of Irish Literature. Power, Patrick C. A Literary History of Ireland. Cork: Mercier Press, 1969. Rafroidi, Patrick. L'lrlande et le Romantisme. Paris. Editions Universitaires, 1972. BIBLIOGRAPHY 745 MYTHOLOGY Gregory, Lady Augusta. Cuchulain of Muirthemne. London: Murray, 1902. ---. Gods and Fighting Men. London: Murray, 1904. Kinsella, Thomas, trans. The Tain. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. Murphy, Gerard. Saga and Myth in Ancient Ireland. Dublin: Cultural Relations Com­ mittee, 1955. O'Grady, Standish. History of Ireland: Cuchulain and His Contemporaries. London: Sampson Low, 1880. ---. History of Ireland: The Heroic Period. London: Sampson Low, 1878. HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF FICTION Brown, Stephen J.lreland in Fiction. Dublin: Maunsel, 1915. Flanagan, Thomas. The Irish Novelists, 1800-1850. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Foster, John Wilson. Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction. Totowa, NJ.: Rowman Ii: Littlefield, 1974. Kiely, Benedict. Modern Irish Fiction, A Critique . Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950. Krans, Horatio S. Irish Life in Irish Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1903. Rafroidi, Patrick, and Harmon, Maurice, eds. The Irish Novel in Our Time. Lille: Universite de Lille, 1976. HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF POETRY Alspach, Russell K. Irish Poetry from the English Invasion to 1798. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Brown, Terence. Northern Voices : Poets from Ulster. Totowa, NJ.: Rowman Ii: Little­ field, 1975. Clarke, Austin. Poetry in Modern Ireland. Dublin: Cultural Relations Committee, 1961. Farren, Robert. The Course of Irish Verse in English. London Ii: New York: Sheed Ii: Ward,1957. Kersnowski, Frank. The Outsiders: Poets of Contemporary Ireland. Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1975. Loftus, Richard J. Nationalism in Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry . Madison Ii: Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964. Lucy, Sean. Irish Poets in English. Cork: Mercier Press, 1973. O'Donoghue, D. J. The Poets of Ireland, A Biographical and Bibliographical Diction­ ary. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1912; reprint, Detroit: Gale, 1968. Power, Patrick C. The Story of Anglo-Irish Poetry, 1800-1922. Cork: Mercier Press, 1967. HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF DRAMA Bartley, J. O. Teague, Shenkln and Sawney. Being an Historical Study of the Earllest Irish, Welsh and Scottish Characters in English Plays. Cork: Cork University Press, 1954. Bell, Sam Hanna. The Theatre in Ulster. Dublin: Gill Ii:Macmillan. 1972. Clark. William S. The Early Irish Stage. The Beginnings 10 1720. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. 746 BIBLIOGRAPHY ---. The Irish Stage in the Country Towns , 1720-1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Duggan , G. C. The Stage Irishman . Dublin: Talbot Press, 1937. Ellis-Fermor, Una. The Irish Dramatic Movement. London: Methuen, 1939; revised 1954. Fay, Gerard. The Abbey Theatre. Cradle of Genius. London: Hollis & Carter, 1958. Gregory, Lady Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. Gerrard's Cross: Colin Smythe, 1973. (The most satisfactory edition.) Hogan, Robert. After the Irish Renaissance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967; London: Macmillan, 1968. ---, and Kilroy, James . The Irish Literary Theatre. Vol 1 of The Modern Irish Drama. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975. ---. Laying the Foundations. 1902-1904. Vol. 2 of The Modern Irish Drama. Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1976. ---. The Abbey Theatre, 1905-1909. Vol. 3 of The Modern Irish Drama. Dublin : Dolmen Press, 1978. Holloway, Joseph. Joseph Holloway's Abbey Theatre. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. ---. Joseph Holloway's Irish Theatre. 3 vols. Dixon, Calif.: Proscenium Press, 1968-1970. Kavanagh, Peter. The Irish Theatre: Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period Up to the Present Day. Tralee: Kerryman, 1946. ---. The Story of the Abbey Theatre. New York: Devin-Adair, 1950. McCann, Sean, ed, The Story of the Abbey. London: New English Library, 1967. Mac Liamm6ir, Micheal, Theatre in Ireland. Dublin : Cultural Relations Committee, 1964. Malone, Andrew E. The Irish Drama. London: Constable, 1929. Nic Shiubhlaigh, Maire, and Kenny, Edward . The Splendid Years. Dublin: Duffy, 1955. o hAodha, Miche81. Theatre in Ireland. Totowa, NJ.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1974. Robinson, Lennox. Ireland's Abbey Theatre. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1951. Simpson, Alan. Beckett and Behan and a Theatre in Dublin. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. Worth, Katharine. The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett. Atlantic High­ lands, N.J.: Humanities Press, [1978]. COLLECTIONS OF CRITICISM Carpenter, Andrew, edt Place, Personality & the Irish Writer. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1977. Dunn, Douglas, ed. Two Decades of Irish Writing. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour, 1975. Porter, Raymond J., and Brophy, James D., eds. Modern Irish Literature. New York: lona College Press & Twayne, 1972. Ronsley, Joseph, edt Myth and Reality in Irish Literature. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977. ANTHOLOGIES General
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  • Beckett and His Biographer: an Interview with James Knowlson José Francisco Fernández (Almería, Spain)

    Beckett and His Biographer: an Interview with James Knowlson José Francisco Fernández (Almería, Spain)

    The European English Messenger, 15.2 (2006) Beckett and His Biographer: An Interview with James Knowlson José Francisco Fernández (Almería, Spain) James Knowlson is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Reading. He is also the founder of the International Beckett Foundation (previously the Beckett Archive) at Reading, and he has written extensively on the great Irish author. He began his monumental biography, Damned to Fame:The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996) when Beckett was still alive, and he relied on the Nobel Prize winner’s active cooperation in the last months of his life. His book is widely acknowledged as the most accurate source of information on Beckett’s life, and can only be compared to Richard Ellmann’s magnificent biography of James Joyce. James Knowlson was interviewed in Tallahassee (Florida) on 11 February 2006, during the International Symposium “Beckett at 100: New Perspectives” held in that city under the sponsorship of Florida State University. I should like to express my gratitude to Professor Knowlson for giving me some of his time when he was most in demand to give interviews in the year of Beckett’s centennial celebrations. José Francisco Fernández JFF: Yours was the only biography on or even a reply to the earlier biography of authorised by Beckett. That must have been Deirdre Bair. It needs to stand on its own two a great responsibility. Did it represent at any feet. And I read with great fascination the time a burden? Knowing that what you wrote biography of Deirdre Bair and have never said would be taken as ‘the truth’.