Mervyn Wall (1908–1997) was an Irish writer and public servant, best known for two satirical fantasy novels about a monk named Fursey. Wall was born in...
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The Unfortunate Fursey is a 1946 satirical fantasy by the writer Mervyn Wall. A mediaeval Irish monastery is invaded by demons. The monks counter the...
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Michael McLaverty, Ewart Milne, Seán Ó Faoláin, Liam O'Flaherty, and Mervyn Wall. Aloys Fleischmann wrote articles on Irish music in the magazine. Politically...
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Teevan (born 1968) Colm Tóibín (born 1955) Joseph Tomelty (1911–1995) Mervyn Wall (1908–1997) Enda Walsh (born 1967) Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) W. B. Yeats...
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Marlowe, (1592) The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey, novels by Mervyn Wall. Vathek, novel by William Beckford, (1786) The Year the Yankees Lost...
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Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred...
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Leaves for the Burning is Mervyn Wall's third novel, and his first non-humorous work. Set in a small town in the Irish midlands, it explores the passing...
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Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021. "Mervyn Wall - Former Member | Aosdana". Aosdana. Arts Council (Ireland). Archived...
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author of Thieves of Blood Karl Edward Wagner, (1945–1994) author of Kane Mervyn Wall, (1908–1997) author of The Unfortunate Fursey Evangeline Walton, (1907–1996)...
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Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury (born 30 March 1948) is a British economist and public servant who served as the Governor of the Bank of England...
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Alfred Mervyn Wall (1 November 1889 – 2 October 1957) was a British trade unionist and political activist. Born in East Hamlet, Shropshire on 1 November...
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Unfortunate Fursey (2015) by Mervyn Wall The Return of Fursey (2015) by Mervyn Wall Leaves for the Burning (2020) by Mervyn Wall Collections Strange Epiphanies...
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Melanie Wall (born 1971), American psychiatric biostatistician Mervyn Wall (1908–1997), Irish writer Nicholas Wall (1945-2017) English Judge Pat Wall (1933–1990)...
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Teevan (born 1968) Colm Tóibín (born 1955) Joseph Tomelty (1911–1995) Mervyn Wall (1908–1997) Enda Walsh (born 1967) Oscar Wilde (1845–1900) W. B. Yeats...
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Walker Visual arts Current member Joe Walker Visual arts Current member Mervyn Wall Literature Past member (deceased) Samuel Walsh Visual arts Current member...
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Niall Ó Dónaill, Irish language lexicographer and writer (died 1995). Mervyn Wall, novelist and dramatist (died 1997). 17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent...
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William Mervyn Pickwoad (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the bishop in the clerical comedy All Gas...
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John Graham, Irish Republican Army activist in the 1940s (born 1915). Mervyn Wall, novelist and dramatist (born 1908). 1997 in Irish television Movies...
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(Vercoquin et le plancton) H. Russell Wakefield – The Clock Strikes Twelve Mervyn Wall – The Unfortunate Fursey Robert Penn Warren – All the King's Men Eudora...
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title "Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away") in The Irish Press (3 October). Mervyn Wall publishes his first novel, The Unfortunate Fursey. Jack Butler Yeats...
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heroes and heroines. The Unfortunate Fursey, a popular comic novel by Mervyn Wall describes the saint as a hapless poor soul tormented by visions of buxom...
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Cusack, Denis Devlin, Charlie Donnelly, Brian O'Nolan, Niall Sheridan and Mervyn Wall. Donnelly and MacDonagh were said to have been close friends. In 1935...
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the new Abbey building. Alarm Among the Clerks was a play written by Mervyn Wall and directed by Cecil F. Ford. It was first performed on Monday, 5 April...
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Thesis (M.A.), University College Dublin, 1959. Kilroy, Thomas (1958). "Mervyn Wall: The Demands of Satire". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 47 (185):...
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drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Françoise Rosay. The film tells the story of ten...
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Irish writers. It caused some writers to leave the country. The author Mervyn Wall explains that during the 1930s there was 'a general intolerant attitude...
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Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE (19 June 1893 – 30 March 1972) was an Australian muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media. He is perhaps...
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Mervyn Johns was a Welsh actor who appeared in 74 films, 32 television shows, and more than 23 plays across six decades on screen and stage. Johns made...
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Mervyn L. Fernandez (born December 29, 1959), nicknamed "Swervin' Mervyn", is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver with...
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Ernest Mervyn Taylor (1906–1964) was a notable New Zealand engraver, commercial artist and publisher. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1906 but...
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