Thomas Kilroy

Standard Name: Kilroy, Thomas

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Lavin
ML built friendships with her early patron, the successful Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, and his wife, Lady Beatrice . Each maintained a regular correspondence with her, Edward Dunsany discussing her writing and Beatrice chatting of...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
ML chose this story when pressed by Thomas Kilroy to name the one she would choose as the finest expression of her art.
Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, 1995, p. vii - x.
viii
Kilroy feels that this story, like others by ML , unveils...
Literary responses Mary Lavin
Thomas Kilroy writes of her characteristic tone as at once sympathetic and demanding, highly moral in the way it negotiates human conduct but entirely flexible in its acceptance of the vagaries of experience.
Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, 1995, p. vii - x.
viii
Literary responses Mary Lavin
In a review for Books and Bookmen at the time of the collection's release, Roger Baker remarked on the curiously dated, pre-Second-World-War feeling about many of ML 's stories. Though he connected this attribute...
Textual Features Mary Lavin
It has been said to show traits of Clarissa Dalloway and other fictional portraits by Woolf .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978.
20
Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS.
194
Thomas Kilroy quotes it as proving the truth of ML 's statement that her stories often...

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Texts

Kilroy, Thomas et al. “Foreword”. In a Café, Town House, 1995, p. vii - x.
Lavin, Mary et al. In a Café. Town House, 1995.
Peavoy, Elizabeth Walsh et al. “Preamble”. In a Café, Town House, 1995, p. xi - xiv.