ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF "O'MALLY OF SHANGANAH."
Byrne, Donn:
[Np]. [1924]. 59;51;41 leaves. Quarto. Original manuscript, neatly written in ink on rectos only, with occasional insertions, deletions and revisions. Scattered paperclip dents, a few early leaves creased in margin, but very good, in folding cloth case. The complete manuscript for Byrne's novel, here denoted "An Untitled Story," in three parts, in which format it was published in CENTURY MAGAZINE (Dec. 1924 - Feb. 1925). It was eventually published in book form by The Century Co. in 1925. Byrne signed and dated the final part at the conclusion, "28 March 1924." A characteristic work by the Irish-American writer, dating from his peripatetic years on the continent. Accompanied by a two page a.l.s. from "Dolly" (i.e. Dorthea Cadogan Byrne), Coolmain Castle, County Cork, 4 July, 1928, two pages, recto and verso of a quarto sheet of mourning stationery, to "My Dear O.R.," giving in considerable detail the circumstances of Donn Byrne's death on June 18th (he was killed when his car broke through a sea wall on a narrow Irish road). Byrne's works enjoyed wide popularity, such that a number of posthumously published works and collections continued to appear in the U.S. and U.K. well into the mid-1930s. Though not widely known now, he remains an interesting instance of a writer bridging several cultures by heritage, by accident of birth, and as a consequence of later rootless travel.
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