(1900 - 1968). Irish dramatist; born Blackrock, County Louth 10 July, 1900:
died Glasgow 20 October, 1968
PLAYS
- The Watched Pot. Produced, Abbey Theatre's Peacock Theatre, 1930.
- Things That Are Caesar's. Produced Abbey Theatre, 1931
- Farewell to Greatness. A play about Jonathan Swift. A revision in
the 1950s televised on BBC.
- Shadow and
Substance. Written 1934. Produced Abbey Theatre,
Jan. 25, 1937
- The Coggerers. (Later retitled The Conspirators). Published 1939.
Produced Abbey Theatre, Nov. 1937.
- The White Steed.
Written 1938. Published 1939. Produced Cort
Theatre, New York, Jan. 10, 1939.
- The King Who Could Not Laugh. Published 1939.
- His Excellency-The Governor. Published 1939.
- St. Francis and the Wolf. Published 1939.
- Beauty Is Fled. Published 1939.
- Death Closes All. Published 1939.
- Maker of Roads. Published 1939.
- Kindred. Written 1939.
- The Old Foolishness. Written, 1940. Published 1944. Produced
London Arts Theatre, May 5, 1943.
- The Strings, My Lord, Are False. Written, 1942. Published in 1944.
Produced Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Mar. 16, 1942.
- The Wise Have Not Spoken. Written, 1944. Published 1947. Pro duced,
in London, 1944.
- Interlude. Published 1947.
- The Chuckeyhead Story. Written, 1950. Produced Pavilion Theatre,
Bournemouth, Oct. 9, 1950. Revived as The Devil Came from Dublin. Pub
lished 1958. Produced 1953.
- Green Cars Go East. Written 1951.
- The Wayward Saint. Published 1955.
- Goodbye to the Summer. Published 1970.
- We Have Ceased to Live. Published 1972.
CRITICISM
P. A. Doyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, 1971; The Journal of Irish Literature
(whole issue devoted to Carroll), 1972.
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