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DONLEAVY, James was born on April 23, 1926 in New York City. Son of Patrick and Margaret Donleavy.
(Aug. 1972 Dell Publishing trade paperback. J. P. Donleavy...)
Aug. 1972 Dell Publishing trade paperback. J. P. Donleavy (The Ginger Man). The authors collection of plays from the entity of his writing career
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Once the squire of the mansion Andromeda Park and now a mere menial, Darcy Dancer embarks upon a series of adventures across the country and in bohemian Dublin in search of his lost youth. A hilariously comic, poignant novel of a remarkable young man's coming of age.
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His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his past divine. He is Darcy Dancer, youthful squire of Andromeda Park, the great gray stone mansion inhabited by Crooks, the cross eyed butler, and the sexy, aristocratic Miss Von B. This sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds our hero falling in with decidedly low company — like the dissolute Dublin poet, Foxy Slattery, and Ronald Rashers, who absconds with the family silver — before falling head over heels in love with the lissome Leila.
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The Indian Boy CHAPTER I SINOPAH GETS HIS NAME THIS is the story of Sinopah, a Blackfoot Indian boy; he who afterward became the great chief Pitamakan, or, as we say, the Running Eagle. I knew Pitamakan well; also his white friend and partner in many adventures, Thomas Fox. Both were my friends; they talked to me much about their boyhood days, so you may know that this is a true story. It was a great many years ago, in the time of the buffalo, that Sinopah was born, and it was on a warm, sunny day in June that he first saw the light of the sun, to which he was afterward to make many a prayer. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Donleavy brings to vivid life the range of Ireland's people, from the small farmer to the landed aristocrat. Priests, politicans, saints, scholars, none escape his pointed pen. Modern Ireland is unveiled with a mixture of genius and hilarity that only Donleavy can muster. Photographs.
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Presents the author's rags-to-riches story of his quest to create and publish his twentieth-century classic, The Ginger Man. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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Donleavy is a gifted storyteller, and this memoir is as vivid and entertaining as the The Ginger Man itself. Donleavy recounts the four years he spent writing this popular novel in Ireland and America, describing his real-life adventures with the likes of Gainor Stephen Crist, the model for protagonist Sebastian Dangerfield, and the infamous playwright Brendan Behan, among others. As in the novel, drinking, fighting, and sex figure prominently. Donleavy also relates his struggle to find a publisher for a book that many people by 1950s standards considered obscene. After 35 rejections he finally found success with the Olympia Press in Paris, but the affair turned into a bitter 25-year legal battle. Recommended for contemporary literature collections.
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(By the author of The Ginger Man. Joy Jones has always bee...)
By the author of The Ginger Man. Joy Jones has always been brought up to behave like a lady. But being pursued by a host of oversexed suitors has left her patience wearing thin. With shotguns across her knees and under her pillow, she is trigger happy and no longer welcome in polite society.
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(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...principle. Each company had two captains, two lieutenants, and two ensigns, and the front ranks were composed of gentlemen who were all provided with targets, and were otherwise better armed than the rear. In the day of battle, each company furnished two of their best men as a guard to the chief, and in their choice, consanguinity was always considered. The chief was posted in the centre of the column, beside the colours, and he stood between two brothers, cousins-german, or other relations. The common men were also disposed with regard to their relatives, the father, the son, and the brother standing beside each other. The effect which this "order of nature"' must have had in stimulating the combatants to deeds of heroism, can be easily perceived. It did not escape the notice of the intelligent Tacitus.. Alluding to the practice among the Celtic' tribes of the Continent, and the inhabitants of the British Isles, who always fought in parties, or by clans, under the command of Home's Hist. of the Rebellion, 1745, &c. 180 EXCELLENCE or CLANSHIP their immediate chiefs, he says, that this disunion, preventing any general confederacy, was highly favourable to the Romans, who were thereby enabled to subdue " a warlike people, independent, fierce, and obstinate?" We, however, find that it did not always prevent a general coalition, as was so strikingly evinced on the invasion of Gaul, and on the advance of Agricola into the regions of Caledonia. Caesar, who was surely a competent judge in this matter, thought his troops fought to much disadvantage against these parties, who stood with firmness, and were constantly relieved by fresh men. Tacitus himself, in his Annals, expresses his decided approbation...
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(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...the living to extol the virtues of former heroes as an excitement to their imitation, but was reckoned extremely pleasing to the deceased--it was indeed thought the means of assisting the spirit to a state of happiness, and became consequently a religious duty. But even where this superstition has no influence, an elegy on a deceased friend continues to gratify the human mind, and the example of virtue seldom fails to inspire youth with a generous spirit of emulation. Eginhart celebrates Charlemagne for committing to writing and to memory the songs on the wars and heroic virtues of his predecessors, and Asser bestows similar praise on the great Alfred. With how much efi'ect the Celtic bards pursued the practice of inflaming their hearers with a spirit of freedom is universally' acknowledged. So influential were they, that national enterprises were directed and controlled by them; and the Roman policy so cruelly carried into effect by Suetonius in Anglesea, was imitated by-Edward the First in his sanguinairy wars with the Cumri. Even Queen Elizabeth thought it necessary to enact some laws to restrain and discourage the bards both of Ireland and VVales. The Bardic compositions, commemorating the worth and exploits of heroes who had successively figured in the different states, were a sort of national annals which served the double purpose of preserving the memory of past transactions, and of stimulating the youth to an imitation of their virtuous ancestors. The lives of the upright Celtic statesmen and heroes were handed down to posterity, and exhibited as illustrious examples for the youth to follow. Their virtues were detailed in verse so' forcible, and national calamities were pourtrayed in language so affecting, that the 214...
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(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...them. The priests of antiquity were national historiographers. Josephus' Antiquities of the Jewish nation were published from the sacred books, and in the stories of Greek and Roman theology, relating the adventures of persons, deified in subsequent times, we have only fragments of vague and traditional, but in most cases, if divested of fable, real history. The old poems of the Germans, according to Tacitus, were their only registers. The songs of the bards are represented as consisting chiefly of hymns to their gods, and poems in praise of their ancestors, but in these were contained their national annals, for the origin of all nations is connected in their fabulous history with that of their gods. The Celtic bards were members of the priesthood, and no class of society among the ancients have been more celebrated. Whether we consider the influence which they possessed, their learning or poetic genius, they are one of the most interesting orders of antiquity, and worthy of our entire admiration. ' Clark. The Orphic verses are believed to have been the very hymns sung by the initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries. " He that has been initiated in the mysteries of Eleusis, or has read the poems called Orphic, will know what I mean." Pausanias, i. 3C. The favourite songs of the bards are said to have been those celebrating the renown of their ancestors. The praises of great men were accompanied with a sort of religious feeling. It was not only useful to the living to extol the virtues of former heroes as an excitement to their imitation, but was reckoned extremely pleasing to the deceased--it was indeed thought the means of assisting the spirit to a state of happiness, and became consequently a religious duty. But even where this...
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DONLEAVY, James was born on April 23, 1926 in New York City. Son of Patrick and Margaret Donleavy.
Preparatory School, New York, and Trinity College, Dublin.
Served in the United States.N. during the Second World War. Brandeis University Creative Arts.
(Once the squire of the mansion Andromeda Park and now a m...)
(The Indian Boy CHAPTER I SINOPAH GETS HIS NAME THIS is th...)
(Presents the author's rags-to-riches story of his quest t...)
(Donleavy brings to vivid life the range of Ireland's peop...)
(Donleavy is a gifted storyteller, and this memoir is as v...)
( His future is disastrous, his present indecent, his pas...)
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
(Humor, Literary Studies, Social Studies)
(By the author of The Ginger Man. Joy Jones has always bee...)
(Book by Schultz, James Willard)
(380 pages of excellent text. First Edition.)
(380 pages of excellent text. First Edition.)
(A further novel in J.P. Donleavy's Irish sequence which f...)
(Book by Donleavy, J. P.)
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Author: novel, later adapted as play The Ginger Man, 1955. Drama Fairy Tales of New York, 1960. A Singular Man novel, later adapted as play, 1963, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule, short stories, sketches, 1964, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S, novella, later adapted as play, 1966, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, novel, later adapted as play, 1968, The Onion Eaters, 1971, The Plays of J.P. Donleavy, 1972.
Novel A Fairy Tale of New York, 1973. The Unexpurgated Code, A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners, 1975, The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, 1977. Novel Schultz, 1979, Leila, 1983, Are You Listening Rabbi Löw, 1987.
De Alfonce Tennis, The Superlative Game of Eccentric Champions: Its History, Accoutrements, Rules, Conduct and Regimen, 1984, J.P. Donleavy's Ireland: In All Her Sins and in Some of Her Graces, 1986 (Gold award Worldfest Houston 1993, Cine Golden Eagle award), A Singular Country, 1989, That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman, 1990, The History of The Ginger Man, 1994, Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Pinceton, 1998, (novella) The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms, 1996, An Author and His Image, 1997. Contributor to numerous magazines and journals including Times of London, New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Daily Telegraph, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, others. Art exhibitions include: Painter's Gallery, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, 1950, 51, Bronxville, New York, 1959, Langton Galleries, London, 1975, Godolphin Gallery, Dublin, 1986, Caldwell Galleries, Belfast, 1987, Anna Mei Chadwick Gallery, London, 1989, 91, 94, Alba Fine Art Gallery, London, 1991, Front Lounge Gallery, 1995, Walton Gallery, London, 2002, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, 2006, The National Arts Club, New York, 2007.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, World War World War II.
Married Valerie Heron (divorced). Children: Philip, Karen. Married Mary Wilson Price (divorced).
Children: Rebecca, Rory.