Aeschylus, 65
Akhmatova, Anna, 26
Who’s Afraid of Viriginia Woolf?, x
The Zoo Story, 73
Alson, Barbara, 37
Atwood, Margaret, 29
August Is a Wicked Month, 5, 13, 51, 55
Barnes, Djuna, 38
Beckett, Samuel ix, xi, xii, 10, 26, 41, 44, 51, 52, 74, 80, 87, 91, 92, 93
Embers, 74
Endgame, 74
Footfalls, 74
Belfast Telegraph, 77–80
Bernanos, George, 30
Bold New Women, 37
Bowen, Elizabeth, 26
Bowen’s Court, 26
Brontë Sisters, xii, 24, 26, 47, 56, 86, 89
Jane Eyre, 26
Brookner, Anita, 29
Look at Me, 29
censorship: banning books, ix, x, xi, 16, 32, 51, 60, 84, 85
burned books, ix, 32, 52, 54, 75, 77, 84, 85
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, 77, 84
Chekhov, Anton, ix, xii, 8, 10, 18, 19, 25, 56, 80, 86, 87
childhood: anecdotes, 9, 10, 23
Catholicism, 16
death, 11–12
emptiness, 8–9
Irish language, 64
kitchen, 16
national school, 6
nunhood, 30
A Pagan Place, 8
recapturing, 42
religious habits, 11
surviving, 42
solitude, 9
writing, 21
church: beliefs, 4
book burning, 32, 52, 54, 75, 85
Bishop Eamon Casey, 54
death, 11–12
“Fall,” 29
fear of God, 91
God-the-Father, 6
hatred of women, 17
importance, 11
“Irish Catholic,” xiv
literary Jesus/Mary Magdalene, 59
Literature as God, 39
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, 77, 84
negative reception, 32, 51, 77
religion in school, 16
religious habits, 11
removal of special position, x
spirituality, 93
as theater, 11
trinity, 65
Country Girl, A Memoir, 79, 90
Country Girls, The: novel ix, xi, xii, 4, 5, 13, 16, 21, 22, 32, 34, 37, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 60, 63, 64, 71, 72, 75, 77, 79, 82, 83
critical reception: Country Girls, x, xi, 51, 60, 72, 83–84
The Gathering, 18–19
Haunted, 78
Iphigenia, 67
in Ireland, 54, 60–61, 63, 77, 83–84, 85, 90
Myles na Gopaleen, 84
negative, 29, 33, 51, 60, 64, 68, 72, 77, 88
in U.S.A., 54
Virginia, 33
writer comparisons, xiv, 30, 56, 89
de Balzac, Honoré, 34
Dickens, Charles, 29
Bleak House, 24
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 24
Down by the River, xii, xiii, 60
du Maurier, Daphne, 85
honorary degree, 82
Julius Caesar, 74
lectures, 22
Lough Rea, Galway, 6
national school, 6
pharmaceutical college, 7, 57, 87
reading, 10, 23–27, 75, 80, 86, 87
self-improvement, 9
teaching, 52
Introducing James Joyce, 10, 24
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15
Enright, Anne, 70
Iphigenia in Aulis, 66
Evening Standard, 14
Ernest Gebler (husband), 15, 35, 51, 56, 83
grandchildren, 80
siblings, 6
sons Carlo and Sasha, 6, 7, 51, 80, 83, 86
Family Butchers, 34
Firbank, Robert, 8
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 22, 24, 25
The Great Gatsby, 25
Tender Is the Night, 25
Flaubert, Gustave, xii, 23, 28, 40, 48, 56, 59
Madame Bovary, 56
Freud, Sigmund, 46
Girls in Their Married Bliss, xi, 5
Girl with Green Eyes. See Lonely Girl, The
Glass Menagerie, The, 73
Glyn, Elinor, 73
Gone with the Wind, 10
Grimm Brothers, 71
Guardian, 60
Hammett, Dashiell, 47
Heaney, Seamus, 76
A Farewell to Arms, 22
Hesse, Hermann, 57
Steppenwolf, 57
House of Splendid Isolation, xii, xiii, 60, 79, 94
How Green Was My Valley, 10
I Hardly Knew You. See Johnny, I Hardly Knew You
In the Forest, xii, xiii, 62, 64, 67, 68
Independent, 58–61
Iphigenia, 66–68
Ireland: attitudes towards, xiv, 7, 31, 52, 54, 61, 62, 76
Cork, 94
County Clare, 5, 14, 15, 40, 51, 56, 57, 58, 63, 64, 73, 77, 83, 84, 94
Dublin, 7, 9, 10, 15, 17, 31, 32, 45, 58, 59, 64, 77, 82, 84, 85, 93
reception in, 29, 32, 53, 54, 57, 60, 63, 77, 81, 84
Irish Independent, 92
Irish Times, x, xii, 3–7, 13–17, 18–20, 53–57
Johnny, I Hardly Knew You, 51
Joyce, James, ix, xi, xii, xiv, 10, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 38, 39, 44, 45, 50, 51, 56, 58–60, 63, 64, 65, 69–70, 71, 74, 80, 86, 88, 91, 92, 93
Finnegans Wake, 26, 59, 64, 69
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, xiv, 10, 24, 45, 64, 92
Ulysses, 26, 30, 38, 45, 60, 64
The Castle, 9
Kierkegaard, Søren, 90
Listener, 8–12
literature, importance of, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 38, 39, 56, 88
Lorna Doone, 10
Love Object, The, 5
Mann, Thomas, 51
Death in Venice, 51
The Magic Mountain, 86
Marlowe, Christopher, 80
McCarthy, Mary, 4
McCullers, Carson, 28
Mizener, Arthur, 22
Murder in the Old Red Barn, 73, 85
na Gopaleen, Myles, 84
New Statesman, 29
New York Times, 40–48
Northern Ireland, xii, xiii, 32, 33, 82, 94, 95
O’Brien, Edna, appearance, x, 3–4, 13, 14, 21, 40, 41, 49, 54, 58, 78
O’Connor, Frank, 26
O’Faolain, Sean, 26
Our Fathers, 60
Out to Lunch (BBC), 81–96
Pagan Place, A: novel, xi, 8, 29, 30, 37, 53, 72
Pasternak, Boris, 25
Dr. Zhivago, 25
Ariel, 14
Between the Acts, 23
Plato, 77
Remembrance of Things Past, 28
Returning, 51
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 36
Roth, Philip, ix, xi, xiv, 35, 36, 69, 80, 85, 86
Saints and Sinners, 90
Sand, George, 40
Sarraute, Nathalie, 38
Shakespeare, William, ix, xii, 19, 25, 38, 45, 59, 65, 67, 73, 74, 80, 86
As You Like It, 38
Hamlet, 25
Julius Caesar, 74
Othello, 25
Shaw, Bernard, 51
St. Augustine, 14
City of God, 14
Stein, Gertrude, 60
Stephens, James, 36
Stern, 33
Stevens, Wallace, 69
Stoker, Bram, 85
The Aran Islands, 40
War and Peace, 24
Toronto Star, 49–52
IRA, 16, 17, 22, 32, 60, 79, 94
Long Kesh/Maze prison, xii, xiii, 95
Dominic McGlinchey, 79
Sinn
Féin, 78
Tsvetayeva, Marina, 47
Vanity Fair, 24
Virginia, 34
Wells, H. G., 26
Welty, Eudora, 28
Wild Decembers, 60
women’s issues: “cult of chastity,” 38
feminism, ix, x, 27–28, 57, 64
men vs. women, 27
spokeswoman, 4
Gertrude Stein, 60
subjugation of women, 51
voice, x
Women’s Lib, 17
women’s movement, 46–47
Woolf, Virginia, ix, xi, xii, 23, 33, 34, 38, 40, 86
The Common Reader, 33
Mrs. Dalloway, 33
To the Lighthouse, 33
The Waves, 38
writing, 17, 22–24, 27, 34, 71, 89
being an Irish writer, 22, 43, 52, 63, 83, 90
difficulty of, 49, 60, 65, 68, 73, 89, 90
film scripts, 37
memory and, 43
monetary incentive, 35
place, 43
plays vs. novels, 73