Sean O'Casey: A Life

by O'Connor, Garry

  [383] Irish Independent, 2 Mar 1926.

  [384] A II. 153, 150.

  [385] Unpub. ltr. to Dr Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, 22 July 1961 [L III].

  [386] To F. R. Higgins, 5 June 1939 (L I. 803).

  [387] To GF, 5 Mar 1926 (L I. 181).

  [388] A II. 254.

  [389] Daily Sketch, 24 Mar 1926; Daily Graphic, 8 Mar 1926.

  [390] Beverley Nichols, Are They the Same at Home? (1927), 275.

  [391] A II. 254.

  [392] Ltr. (1934) to Lady Londonderry, in H. Montgomery Hyde, The Londonderrys (1979), 247.

  [393] A II. 251-2.

  [394] Sunday Times, 22 Nov 1925.

  [395] Lady Gregory’s Journals 1916-1930, 256.

  [396] Irish Times, 24 Mar 1926.

  [397] David Krause argues in L I. 183 that SO’C was ignorant of his age; but cf. pp. 205, 300.

  [398] To GF, 27 Mar and 12 Apr 1926 (L I. 185-6, 189).

  [399] Sean McCann in McCann, 31.

  [400] Windfalls, 58-9.

  [401] Beatrice Coogan in McCann, 85.

  [402] Eileen, 27, 41, 46.

  [403] Sean, 23.

  [404] To GF, 13 May 1926 (L I. 194).

  [405] To GF, 16 May 1926 (L I. 196).

  [406] To Frank O’Donnell, 23 Jan 1953 (L II. 938).

  [407] Augustus John, Autobiography: Chiaroscuro (repr. 1975), 340.

  [408] To EO’C, [?] May 1926 (L I. 195).

  [409] Sean, 26.

  [410] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 1926 (extract quoted in Sean, 28).

  [411] A II. 291-2.

  [412] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 9 July 1929 (EO’C).

  [413] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 13 Sept 1929 (EO’C).

  [414] To GF, 20 June 1926 (L I. 201).

  [415] Sean McCann in McCann, 42.

  [416] Daily Sketch, 7 July 1926.

  [417] Catholic Bulletin, vol. V, 803-4.

  [418] Holloway, 270-1.

  [419] James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (repr. 1952), 231.

  [420] Irish Independent, 7 July 1926.

  [421] A II. 154.

  [422] A II. 166.

  [423] Colum, 170-1.

  [424] A II. 167.

  [425] Mary Purcell, Matt Talbot (Dublin, 1954), 244-8.

  [426] A II. 140.

  [427] Walter McDonald: The Manliness of St Paul (1958), 132; Ethical Aspect of the Social Question (Dublin, 1920), 217.

  [428] To Daily Worker, 31 May 1948 (L II. 535).

  [429] Irish Writing, nos. 7-15 (1945-6).

  [430] Lennox Robinson, interviewed by S. Cowasjee, 3 Sept 1958 (Cowasjee, Sean O’Casey, 87).

  [431] CP II. 103.

  [432] Peter Quennell to the author.

  [433] Unpub. ltrs. to EO’C: 13 Sept 1928, 9 July 1929 (EO’C).

  [434] To GF, 1 Oct 1926 (L I. 206).

  [435] Sean, 29.

  [436] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 10 Jan 1927 (EO’C).

  [437] A II. 270.

  [438] Wilfred Owen, Poems (1920), 32-3.

  [439] To Lady G, 24 Dec 1926 (L I. 210-16).

  [440] Huntly Carter, The New Spirit in the European Theatre, 1914-1924 (1925), 214, 217.

  [441] A II. 295.

  [442] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 7 July 1929 (EO’C).

  [443] Sean, 31.

  [444] Unpub. ltrs.: to EO’C, 7 July 1929; EO’C to SO’C, undated (EO’C).

  [445] To GF, 25 Apr 1927 (L I. 215).

  [446] CP II. 35.

  [447] To GJN, 28 Nov 1939 (L I. 8).

  [448] A II. 271, 264.

  [449] To GF, 5 Jan 1927 (L I. 211).

  [450] A II. 295.

  [451] EO’C to the author.

  [452] To EO’C, 1927 (L I. 216-17).

  [453] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 3 Aug 1927, partly quoted in Sean, 33-4.

  [454] Unpub. ltrs.: EO’C to SO’C, undated (1927); to EO’C, 10 Sept 1927 (EO’C).

  [455] To Daily Worker (not pub.) 31 May 1948 (L II. 532).

  [456] Sean, 41.

  [457] Eileen, 99; Sean, 42.

  [458] To GF, 9 Sept and 13 Sept 1927 (L I. 220, 221).

  [459] Lady G to SO’C, 27 Nov 1927, in Modern Drama, May 1965, 97.

  [460] George Bishop, in The Observer, 6 Oct 1929.

  [461] A II. 298.

  [462] Sean, 55.

  [463] Unpub. ltr. to David Krause, 1963 [L III].

  [464] Lady Londonderry, Retrospect (1928), 247.

  [465] Unpub. ltr. to D Krause, 1963 [L III].

  [466] Londonderry, Retrospect, 189.

  [467] A II. 295.

  [468] Ronald Clark, Life of Bertrand Russell (1975), 380.

  [469] Paul Johnson, A History of the Modern World (1983), 275-6.

  [470] To Lady G, 28 Feb 1928 (L I. 230, 233).

  [471] Lady G to SO’C, 27 Apr 1928, in Modern Drama, May 1965, 100.

  [472] WBY to SO’C, 20 Apr 1928 (L I. 268).

  [473] Yeats, Collected Poems, 211.

  [474] St. John Ervine to SO’C, 6 June 1928 (L I. 263).

  [475] Lady G to SO’C, 27 Apr 1928, in Modern Drama, May 1965, 100.

  [476] Sean, 59.

  [477] A II. 301.

  [478] Rough draft of a ltr. to GBS, 5 July 1928 (L I. 297); it is not known if the letter was sent.

  [479] Two cartoons, 9 June 1928, apparently unsent (EO’C).

  [480] To Daniel Macmillan, 12 May 1928 (L I. 244-5).

  [481] On WBY to Lady G, 25 Apr 1928 (L I. 238).

  [482] To LR, 2 May 1928 (L I. 240).

  [483] To WBY, 11 May 1928 (L I. 273).

  [484] To Lady G, undated (L I. 270).

  [485] To George Russell, 2 June 1928 (L I. 257).

  [486] Walter Starkie to WBY, Irish Statesman, 9 June 1928.

  [487] Unpub. notebook E 6 (Berg).

  [488] A II. 277.

  [489] Catholic Bulletin, vol. XVIII (1928), 676.

  [490] Unpub. ltr. WBY to Lady G, 4 June 1928.

  [491] Lady Gregory’s Journals 1916-1930, 110.

  [492] To Nineteenth Century, Sept 1928 (L I. 306).

  [493] A II. 284.

  [494] Sir Barry Jackson to SO’C, 28 June 1928 (Sean, 62).

  [495] St. John Ervine to SO’C, 6 June 1928 (L I. 263-4).

  [496] GBS to SO’C, 19 June 1928 (Sean, 63).

  [497] GBS to Lady G, in Lady Gregory’s Journals 1916-1930, 110-11.

  [498] Quoted in Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason (1980), 31.

  [499] GBS to SO’C, 19 June 1928 (Sean, 63).

  [500] To Irish News (not pub.), 4 July 1928 (L I. 295).

  [501] A II. 279.

  [502] Sean, 64.

  [503] A II. 279-80.

  [504] GBS to SO’C, 3 July 1928 (Sean, 65).

  [505] To GBS, [5] July 1928 (L I. 297).

  [506] To GBS, [5] July 1928 (L I. 297).

  [507] Charlotte Shaw to EO’C, 8 July 1928 (Sean, 66).

  [508] A II. 280.

  [509] Irish Statesman, 4 Aug 1928.

  [510] A II. 280.

  [511] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 24 Aug 1928 (EO’C).

  [512] To GF, 28 July 1928 (L I. 302).

  [513] Unpub. ltrs.: EO’C to SO’C, undated; to EO’C, 20 Sept 1928 (EO’C).

  [514] Lord Chamberlain to C. B. Cochran, July 1928 (L I. 299).

  [515] J. L. Hodson, No Phantoms Here (1932), 144.

  [516] To Lady G, 7 Nov 1928 (L I. 320, 319).

  [517] To GF, 29 Nov 1928 (L I. 323).

  [518] To Oliver Gogarty, 5 Feb 1929 (L I. 334).

  [519] O. Gogarty to SO’C, 8 Feb 1929 (L I. 336).

  [520] To GF, 28 Feb 1929 (L I. 341).

  [521] To Augustus John: 20 Feb 1929 (L I. 340); unpub. ltr., 15 Jan 1929.

  [522] David Astor to author.

  [523] Sean, 48.

  [524] Unpub. ltrs. To EO’C, 9 July 1929 (EO’C), 14 July 1930 (Windfalls, 35-42).

  [525] Unpub. ltrs., EO’C to SO’C, undated and 6 July 1929 (EO’C).

  [526] Lady G to SO’C, 15 July 1929, in Mod
ern Drama, May 1965, 105.

  [527] To Lady G, 18 July 1929 (L I. 350-1).

  [528] Raymond Massey, A Hundred Different Lives (1979), 86-7.

  [529] Massey, Hundred Different Lives, 87.

  [530] To GF, 18 Sept 1929 (L I. 366).

  [531] Emlyn Williams, An Early Autobiography, 1927-1935 (1973), 114.

  [532] Unpub. ltr., WBY to Lady G, 30 Oct 1929.

  [533] The Observer, 6 Oct 1929.

  [534] To Lady G, 15 Oct 1929 (L I. 369).

  [535] A II. 336.

  [536] Massey, Hundred Different Lives, 90-1.

  [537] Augustus John to SO’C, 21 Oct 1929 (Sean, 87).

  [538] Williams, Early Autobiography, 117.

  [539] Unpub. ltrs.: WBY to Lady G, 10 Nov 1929; to LR, 16 Nov 1929.

  [540] To GF, 3 Dec 1929 (L I. 384).

  [541] Catholic Mind, Sept 1930.

  [542] Irish Statesman, 30 Nov 1929.

  [543] Irish Statesman, 14 Dec 1929.

  [544] To Irish Statesman, 7 Jan 1930 (L I. 392).

  [545] To Oliver Gogarty, 14 Apr 1930 (L I. 404).

  [546] Irish Statesman, 30 Nov 1929.

  [547] Unpub. ltr. to Charles Rosenberg and Martin Kesselman, 23 Mar 1955 [L III].

  [548] To Lady Londonderry, 14 July 1930 (L I. 413).

  [549] Bonar Thompson, Hyde Park Orator (1934), Preface, xii.

  [550] To GF, 4 Nov 1930 (L I. 423).

  [551] Leslie Rees in Meanjin Quarterly, vol. XXIV, no. 4, 416.

  [552] Unpub. ltrs. to EO’C, 15 Feb 1932 and undated (EO’C).

  [553] Unpub. ltrs. to EO’C, 11 July 1929 and undated (EO’C).

  [554] A II. 423.

  [555] Sean, 90-1; Eileen, 121-2.

  [556] To GJN, 12 Feb 1953 (L II. 940-1).

  [557] A II. 363.

  [558] Charlotte Shaw to EO’C, 15 Nov 1931 (Sean, 94).

  [559] To Charlotte Shaw, [?] Nov 1931 (L I. 443).

  [560] A II. 366.

  [561] To GF, 21 Oct 1931 (L I. 438).

  [562] To Charlotte Shaw, [?] Nov 1931 (L I. 441).

  [563] Hodson, No Phantoms Here, 147-56.

  [564] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 15 Feb 1932 (EO’C).

  [565] Eileen, 127.

  [566] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 10 Mar 1932 (EO’C).

  [567] CP II. 141, 140, 145.

  [568] To J. R. Storey, [?] July 1932 (L I. 445).

  [569] FIP, 409.

  [570] Samuel Beckett, Disjecta, in Bookman, Christmas 1934, 82-3.

  [571] Elizabeth Coxhead, Lady Gregory (1961), 192.

  [572] GBS to SO’C, 23 July 1932 (Sean, 107).

  [573] Sean, 105.

  [574] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 27 Dec 1932 (EO’C).

  [575] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 18 Jan 1933 (EO’C).

  [576] To GJN, 30 May 1933 (L I. 457).

  [577] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 20 May 1933 (EO’C).

  [578] C. B. Cochran to SO’C, 1 Aug 1933 (L I. 460).

  [579] Blasts, 111-17.

  [580] CP II. 208.

  [581] To C. B. Cochran, 7 Aug 1933 (L I. 462).

  [582] EO’C to author.

  [583] EO’C to author.

  [584] Hesketh Pearson, Bernard Shaw (1987), 413.

  [585] Eugene O’Neill to SO’C, 15 Dec 1933 (L I. 482).

  [586] T. E. Lawrence to Lady Astor, 15 Feb 1934, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, ed. D. Garnett (1938), 510.

  [587] Unpub. ltr. Augustus John to SO’C, 11 Jan 1934.

  [588] To Lady Astor, 6 Jan 1934 (L I. 486).

  [589] Daily Express, 8 Feb 1934.

  [590] The Times, 8 Feb 1934.

  [591] Daily Express, 12 Feb 1934.

  [592] Sunday Times, 11 Feb 1934.

  [593] Sunday Times, 18 Feb 1934.

  [594] To Macmillan & Co., 5 July 1934 (L I. 511).

  [595] To GJN, 1 Nov 1933, 21 July 1934 (L I. 477, 516).

  [596] Unpub. ltr., EO’C to SO’C, undated (EO’C).

  [597] A II. 387.

  [598] Hyde, The Londonderrys, 248.

  [599] A II. 393.

  [600] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 16 Sept 1934 (EO’C).

  [601] A II. 403.

  [602] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, undated (EO’C).

  [603] A II. 407.

  [604] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, undated (EO’C).

  [605] Unpub. ltrs. to EO’C, 21 Oct and 26 Nov 1934 (EO’C).

  [606] New York Times, 14 Oct 1934.

  [607] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C. 31 Oct 1934.

  [608] Unpub. ltrs. to EO’C, 14 Nov, 2 Oct, between 4 and 20 Oct 1934 (EO’C).

  [609] A II. 440.

  [610] A II. 472, 479.

  [611] To GJN, 30 Nov 1935 (L I. 536).

  [612] Unpub. notebook E 8 (Berg).

  [613] New Statesman and Nation, 9 Feb 1935.

  [614] WBY to Ethel Mannin, 4 Mar 1935, The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. A. Wade (1954), 831-3.

  [615] A II. 342, 343.

  [616] A II. 345.

  [617] Nigel Fisher, Harold Macmillan (1982), 20.

  [618] H. Macmillan to author.

  [619] H. Macmillan to author.

  [620] To GJN, 1 Dec 1935 (L I. 597-8)

  [621] Harold Macmillan, The Middle Way (1938), 373.

  [622] H. Macmillan to author.

  [623] J. Ramsay MacDonald to SO’C, 10 Jan 1934 (L I. 487).

  [624] Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey (1971), 212.

  [625] John Strachey, The Menace of Fascism (1932).

  [626] Malcom Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. I (1978), 205.

  [627] Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change (1966), 359.

  [628] G. B. Shaw, Immaturity (1931), Preface.

  [629] Lady Astor to SO’C, 8 Nov 1935 (L I. 593).

  [630] A II. 600.

  [631] Unpub. ltr. to EO’C, 13 Oct 1934 (EO’C).

  [632] H. Macmillan to author.

  [633] To Time and Tide, 23 May and 6 June 1936 (L I. 628, 632).

  [634] To Harold Macmillan, 13 Nov 1936 (L I. 642).

  [635] H. Macmillan to author.

  [636] To Harold Macmillan, 25 Sept 1936 (L I. 637-9).

  [637] To GJN, 28 Oct 1936 (L I. 639).

  [638] Sean, 138.

  [639] New York Times, 6 June 1937.

  [640] To Lady Rhondda, [?] Dec 1937 (L I. 688).

  [641] Forward, 6 Apr and 30 Apr 1938.

  [642] Time and Tide, 4 June and 11 June 1938.

  [643] International Literature (Moscow), Dec 1939 (Blasts, 176).

  [644] To Peter Newmark, 7 June 1937 (L I. 673).

  [645] To GF, 29 Oct 1936 (L I. 641).

  [646] To GJN, 28 Oct 1936 (L I. 639).

  [647] To Harold Macmillan, 9 Sept 1938 (L I. 736).

  [648] To Harold Macmillan, 22 Oct 1938 (L I. 820).

  [649] EO’C to author.

  [650] To GBS, 24 Nov 1937 (L I. 685).

  [651] CP II. 252.

  [652] Unpub. telegram to Raisa Lomonosova, 17 Nov 1925 [L III].