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Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

November 1, 2016 - Connal Parr

Connal Parr in the Reading and Viewing Room at the Harry Ransom Center

I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland. [Read more…] about Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland

Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Fellows Find, Fellowships, George Bernard Shaw, St. John Ervine

Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

April 13, 2016 - Gerald Cloud

Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882, from the Oscar Wilde Literary File at the Harry Ransom Center.

This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright.

Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.

[Read more…] about Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Andre Raffalovich, Arthur Goddard, bibliophile, Cicero, De Profundis, Dublin, Edward Freeman, James Thomason, journalism, Lord Alfred Douglas, Magdalen College, marginalia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Literary File, Oscar’s Books, Oxford, personal libraries, Theodore Tilton, Thomas Wright, Trinity College

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