Education
Wall attended Belvedere College and worked as a civil servant 1934-1948, for Radio Éireann from 1948-1957, and as Secretary of the Arts Council for 1957-1975.
(The Devil himself has launched a determined offensive on ...)
The Devil himself has launched a determined offensive on the sanctified precincts of tenth-century Clonmacnoise-and the unfortunate Brother Fursey becomes his unwitting ally. Expelled from the monastery, Fursey is propelled into a wider world of evil and intrigue, where he must come to terms with his new life as an unwitting, ineffectual and persecuted sorcerer. Mervyn Wall has created an irresistable blend of satire, comedy and fantasy. The gentle, self-effacing Fursey is one of the greatest antiheroes of fiction.
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(Supernatural fantasy. Fursey despairs of being reconciled...)
Supernatural fantasy. Fursey despairs of being reconciled with the Church and embraces wickedness. Alas, he is unequal to the task, too squeamish to allow Albert, his long-suffering familiar, even a drop of his blood, not quite up to murder, and an embarrassment at the Sabbat.
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Wall attended Belvedere College and worked as a civil servant 1934-1948, for Radio Éireann from 1948-1957, and as Secretary of the Arts Council for 1957-1975.
Wall published novels, short stories and plays, and wrote for a short-lived literary magazine, Ireland Today. Wall wrote two humorous fantasy novels, The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey, about the misadventures of a monk in Dark Ages Ireland. The Fursey novels have been highly praised in North America.
East. F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction described The Unfortunate Fursey as "a landmark book in the history of fantasy".
Darrell Schweitzer described Wall as "one of the finest comic fantasists ever, but also one of the most neglected." Parke Godwin described both Fursey novels as "pure gold".
(The Devil himself has launched a determined offensive on ...)
(Supernatural fantasy. Fursey despairs of being reconciled...)