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Identification: MSS 099, F646
Creator: MacNamara, Brinsley, 1890-1963.
Title: Brinsley MacNamara manuscripts
Inclusive Dates: 1938–1954
Extent: 2 items (16 pp.)
Abstract: Two manuscripts written by Brinsley MacNamara.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F646, Brinsley MacNamara manuscripts, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 2000.
Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007.
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Irish novelist, playwright, and drama critic Brinsley MacNamara (1890–1963) is a pseudonym for John Weldon. Some of MacNamara's plays were staged at the Abbey Theatre, where he had once acted and later became a board member.
Sources:
"Brinsley MacNamara September 6, 1890–February 4, 1963." Literature Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed March 26, 2007).
This collection consists of two typescripts written by Brinsley MacNamara. One is a speech on the "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of the Abbey Theatre - 26/12/54." The typescript is 5 pages with autograph corrections. The second is "The Best Irish Plays of 1938. Brinsley MacNamara - 30/12/38." This is a review of plays with autograph corrections and is 11 pages.
Brinsley MacNamara manuscripts, 1938–1954 [Box 39 F646]
Two typescripts not signed, 16 pp.
