Cover

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

PRECONCEPTION(S)

PART 1 FIRST THINGS

1 Beginnings

2 Seeing Things

3 'Give Me That Old Style Religion!'

4 To Make Eternal Silence Speak'

5 Under Which Flag?

PART 2 THE DUBLIN PLAYS

6 Love Among the Ruins

7 Going Through the Mill

8 Telling It Like It Is

9 'I Banish You!'

PART 3 LONDON – NEW YORK – LONDON

10 London Lights and The Silver Tassie

11 Trapped Inside the Gates?

12 'Beside the Golden Door'

PART 4 TOUGHING IT OUT IN DEVON

13 O'Casey's Good War

14 Oak Leaves and Lavender

15 Cock-a-Doodle Dandy

16 The Road to Torquay

PART 5 LAST THINGS

17 The Writer's Not for Burning

18 A Death in the Family

19 The Drums of Archbishop McQuaid

20 Something of a Renaissance

21 Talking to God

AFTERLIFE

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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