O'DUFFY, Eimar

O'DUFFY, Eimar: (1893-1935)

   Irish writer whose mock-epic-Irish Aloysius O'Kennedy sequence-King Goshawk and the Birds (1926), The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928) and Asses in Clover (1933) - makes satiricalpoints about contemporary civilization, very much in the manner of James Stephens (1882-1950) in The Crock of Gold (1912), by assessing modern lifethrough the eyes of characters who are, or claim to be, figures of Irish legend. The second volume mounts its comparatively sustained SATIRE through its heroes' voyage to a UTOPIA where everything is, not unusually, inverted. The third, set like the first in Ireland after 1950, musters the forces of legend to defeat US capitalism in the form of the egregious King Goshawk.

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   Other works: Bricriu's Feast (1919), a fantasy play.

   About the author: Eimar O'Duffy (1972 chap) by Robert Hogan.

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