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    Ellen Dymphna Cusack AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated...
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  • Say No to Death (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Say No to Death (1951) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. It was originally published in Australia by Heinemann, and later in the US by William...
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    in the US, she also wrote Pioneers on Parade in collaboration with Dymphna Cusack and a biography of Joseph Furphy (1944) "in painful collaboration with...
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  • Pacific Paradise (play) (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Pacific Paradise is a 1955 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It was adapted on ABC radio in 1956 and 1957. By 1962 the play had been produced in New Zealand...
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  • Stand Still Time (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Stand Still Time is a 1946 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It was adapted for radio and British television. A soldier who, having been posted missing...
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  • The Half-Burnt Tree (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    The Half-Burnt Tree (1969) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. The novel follows the story of three people living in the fictional NSW north-coast...
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    Cusack (politician), Australian politician Cyril Cusack, Irish actor Dick Cusack, American actor and filmmaker Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler Dymphna Cusack...
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  • Spartacus (radio play) (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Australian radio play by Dymphna Cusack about the rebel slave Spartacus. It was the last of the ABC's Bonus Competition Plays. Cusack wrote it in 1940. She...
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  • Morning Sacrifice (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Morning Sacrifice is a 1942 Australian stage play by Dymphna Cusack. It was based on Cusack's experience as a school teacher. It was published in 1944...
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  • Come In Spinner (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Come In Spinner is an Australian novel by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James, originally published in 1951 and set in Sydney at the end of the Second World...
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  • The Sun in Exile (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    The Sun in Exile (1955) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. The narrator of the story, Alexandra Pendlebury, is a middle-aged spinster who...
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  • in the 1940s and 1950s John Bede Cusack, pseudonym John Beede, author, younger brother of Dymphna Cusack Johnny Cusack (1927–2020), Irish Gaelic footballer...
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  • Black Lightning (novel) (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Black Lightning (1964) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Tempe Caxton is an ageing television presenter who is recovering from a suicide...
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  • novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. It was originally published by Heinemann in Australia in 1971. It was Dymphna Cusack's last novel. Roslyn Blackie...
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    Picnic Races (novel) (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Picnic Races (1962) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Set in the fictional Australian country town of Gubba, the novel details the town's...
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  • The Sun Is Not Enough (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    The Sun is Not Enough (1967) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Martin Belford is a wealthy solicitor who lives with his sister Alice. Their...
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  • Comets Soon Pass (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Comets Soon Pass is a 1943 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. It won the 1943 WA Drama Festival Award. (She had won it the year before with Morning Sacrifice...
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  • Southern Steel (novel) (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Southern Steel (1953) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Set in Newcastle, New South Wales, during World War II, the story concerns three...
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  • filmmaker Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler Dymphna Cusack, Australian writer Henry Edward Cusack, Irish locomotive Engineer Joan Cusack, American actress...
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  • Jungfrau (novel) (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Jungfrau (1936) is the debut novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. The novel tells the story of a 1930s Sydney school teacher, Thea, her affair with...
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  • 1990 Australian mini series, based on the novel Come In Spinner by Dymphna Cusack, starring Lisa Harrow, Kerry Armstrong, Rebecca Gibney, Martin Vaughan...
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  • Pioneers on Parade (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    on Parade (1939) is a novel by Australian writers Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack. The novel is set in Sydney during the sesqui-centenary celebrations...
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    West Wyalong New year Celebrations & Bi-annual Fireworks, West Wyalong Dymphna Cusack, author Reginald Roy Rattey, Victoria Cross recipient Terry Gathercole...
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  • Shallow Cups (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Shallow Cups is a 1933 Australian play by Dymphna Cusack. The play was published in a 1934 collection of Australian plays Eight Plays for Australians....
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    Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. The 1942 radio play Spartacus by Dymphna Cusack. The "Spartacus Overture" was written by composer Camille Saint-Saëns...
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  • Heatwave in Berlin (category Novels by Dymphna Cusack)
    Heatwave in Berlin (1961) is a novel by Australian writer Dymphna Cusack. Australian Joy von Muhler is returning with her husband Stephen to Berlin, in...
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  • the Gladiator Spartacus (radio play), a 1942 Australian radio play by Dymphna Cusack Spartacus (Fast novel), a historical novel by Howard Fast, the basis...
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  • holding script competitions. Members of the board included names such as Dymphna Cusack and Sumner Locke Elliott. The Board ceased operations in 1963. The Board's...
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  • Lure of the Inland Sea (category Plays by Dymphna Cusack)
    Island Sea is a 1945 Australian radio play by Dymphna Cusack about Charles Sturt. It was one of Cusack's main radio plays and was recorded in Melbourne...
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  • Australian melodrama set during the 19th century based on a play by Dymphna Cusack. It features an early screen performance by Peter Finch, who plays a...
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