The Irish literary tradition by Frank O'Connor

Object Details

Local Numbers: FW-COMM-LP-09825 Folkways.9825
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint): New York : Folkways, 1958.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by Frank O'Connor.
General: Notes with text of recording and readings in booklet (8 p. : ill.) inserted in original container. Cover design by Ronald Clyne.

Producer: O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966 (poet, reader)
Author: Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932; Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Cover designer: Clyne, Ronald, 1925-2006
Collection Creator: Asch, Moses; Distler, Marian, 1919-1964; Folkways Records

Topic: English literature -- Irish authors; Oral interpretation of fiction; Oral interpretation of poetry; Literature; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism

Producer: O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966 (poet, reader)
Author: Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932; Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909; Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Cover designer: Clyne, Ronald, 1925-2006

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Collection Citation: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

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Track Information: 101. Introduction. 101. A Lovely Church ; The Scholar & the Cat / by Frank O'Connor. 102. My Grief on the Sea / by Douglas Hyde. 103. Twenty Golden Years Ago / by James Clarence Mangan. 104. On Baile's Strand / by W. B. Yeats. 105. Riders to the Sea / by J. M. Synge. 106. The Gaol Gate / by Lady Gregory. 201. Playboy of the Western World / by J. M. Synge. 202. A Prayer for My Daughter / by W. B. Yeats. 203. A Portrait of the Artist / by James Joyce. 204. Ulysses / by James Joyce. 205. Finnegans Wake / by James Joyce.

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