Mervyn Wall is an Irishwriter, born in Dublin in 1908. The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Ãtha Cliath),is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
MervynWall and Darrell Figgis: The Fursey Novels and The Return of the Hero
Among the authors discussed are James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, MervynWall, Darrell Figgis, Eimar O'Duffy, and James Stephens.
From the sophisticated satire of Joyce, as found in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to the tragicomedies of MervynWall's Fursey novels, the intrusion of medieval Irish sources remains constant, suggesting a certain homogeneity in the novels' offerings of escape from reality through a world that belongs, in part, to folklore.