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Encyclopedia > Mervyn Wall

Mervyn Wall is an Irish writer, 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 Átha 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). ...

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Writings

Novels

  • The Unfortunate Fursey, 1946.
  • The Return of Fursey, 1948.
  • Leaves for Burning, 1952.
  • No Trophies Raise, 1956.
  • Hermitage, 1982.
  • The Garden of Echoes, 1982.

Plays

  • Alarm among the Clerks, 1940.
  • The Lady in the Twilight, 1971.

Other Publications

  • A Flutter of Wings, 1974, short stories.
  • Forty Foot Gentlemen Only, 1963, history.

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels:0313304904:Quintelli-Neary, Marguerite:eCampus.com (188 words)
Mervyn Wall and Darrell Figgis: The Fursey Novels and The Return of the Hero
Among the authors discussed are James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Mervyn Wall, 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 Mervyn Wall'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.
CASTLEGARDEN SCHOOL by Marie Heskin (329 words)
On one of the walls hung a large map of the world with all areas of the British Empire marked in red.
Wall, son of the draper Tommie Wall of High St., Kilkenny, and went to live in Dublin.
She became the mother of Mervyn Wall, the noted writer and broadcaster in Radio Eireann for many years.
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