Frank O'Connor

Critical essays

Hilary Lennon, editor

‘The essays gathered here … are a critical step in the re-evaluation of somebody who deliberately trod his own path, and stuck to his belief that stories could be incendiary without the need for pyrotechnics or war-paint’, Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post.

'These timely essays on Frank O'Connor, expertly edited by Hilary Lennon from a Trinity College Dublin seminar, add to our understanding not just of writing but or Ireland's shifting analytical principles ... Without exception, these essays are brilliantly illuminating', Thomas McCarthy, Irish Times.

'Well-informed and nicely balanced, this is a good way to first meet O’Connor', Reference & Research Book News.

'A comprehensive assessment of one of Ireland's most contentious writers of the twentieth century, a man who emerged from a period of major political and social upheaval at the turn of the last century ... [This book] will hopefully stimulate a badly needed reappraisal of one of Ireland's most controversial twentieth-century literary talents. Hilary Lennon is to be commended for assembling such a fine and varied list of contributors and for the coherent manner in which she has arranged her material', Eamon Maher, The Irish Book Review.