James Patrick Donleavy (23 April 1926 – 11 September 2017) was an American-Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright. His best-known work is the...
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The Ginger Man is a novel, first published in Paris in 1955, by J. P. Donleavy. The story is set in Dublin, Ireland, in post-war 1947. Upon its publication...
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Manual of Survival & Manners is a 1975 non-fiction humorous book by J. P. Donleavy. The book is a guide for people who feel that they should belong to...
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(1964) Brendan Behan's New York – Brendan Behan (1964) A Singular Man – J. P. Donleavy (1964) An American Dream – Norman Mailer (1964) The Warriors (Yurick...
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Tom Robbins, Dido, Brian Eno, Tim Robbins, Daniel Lanois, Yoko Ono, J. P. Donleavy, Naomi Klein, Oumou Sangare, Billy Connolly, Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore...
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List of postmodern writers (section P)
Samuel R. Delany Don DeLillo Junot Diaz Philip K. Dick E. L. Doctorow J. P. Donleavy Sergei Dovlatov Margaret Drabble Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Marguerite...
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List of literary initials (section P)
John Dann MacDonald J. P. Dabney – Julia Parker Dabney J. P. Donleavy – James Patrick Donleavy J. R. Ackerley – Joe Randolph Ackerley J. R. R. Tolkien –...
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A Fairy Tale of New York is a novel by Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy, published in 1973. The plot concerns Irish-American Cornelius Christian's...
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extensive theatre credits include The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J P Donleavy in London's West End, which he also produced, first playing Balthazar...
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A Singular Man is a 1963 novel by J. P. Donleavy. First published in Boston, the novel is set in an unnamed city that is believed to be New York and was...
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Balthazar B is the third full-length novel by Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy and follows the picaresque experiences of the eponymous character from...
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List of 20th-century writers (section P-Q)
E. L. Doctorow Anna Bowman Dodd Harriet Doerr Stephen R. Donaldson J. P. Donleavy Michael Dorris Ella Loraine Dorsey John Dos Passos Fyodor Dostoevsky...
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People), Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl), William Trevor (Felicia's Journey), J. P. Donleavy (The Ginger Man), Thomas Moore (Lalla Rookh), Nahum Tate (The History...
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List of American novelists (section P)
1955), Shantee' Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947), Lord Foul's Bane J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017), The Ginger Man Richard Dooling (born 1954), White Man's...
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Friedman labeled as "black humorists" a variety of authors, such as J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov...
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version of Shakespeare's Richard III is released in U.K. cinemas. June – J. P. Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man is published in Paris by Olympia Press, but he...
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1989). 4 April – Ronnie Masterson, actress (died 2014). 23 April – J. P. Donleavy, writer (died 2017). 26 April – Philomena Garvey, golfer. 18 May – Sylvester...
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Sunday World Archived 2014-01-18 at archive.today on The Ginger Man: "Donleavy, who lives near Mullingar, has previously rejected repeated attempts by...
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discussion programme After Dark with, among others, Patrick Cosgrave, J. P. Donleavy, David Norris, Emily O'Reilly and Francis Stuart. In May 1994 Paul Hill...
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was part of a near-movement in fiction. While I was writing Catch-22, J. P. Donleavy was writing The Ginger Man, Jack Kerouac was writing On the Road, Ken...
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William Congreve, playwright and poet Michael de Larrabeiti, author J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author Richard Ellmann, literary critic and biographer...
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Pembroke Road, Dublin.. According to J.P. Donleavy's History of The Ginger Man, Behan was instrumental in bringing Donleavy in contact with M. Girodios of Olympia...
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discussion programme After Dark, alongside among others Patrick Cosgrave, J. P. Donleavy, David Norris and Francis Stuart. In 1998, she became the editor of...
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Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Brendan Behan, John Jordan, Pearse Hutchinson, J. P. Donleavy and artist Desmond MacNamara who, at the author's request, created the...
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Corcoran, chief executive officer (CEO) of Betfair Joe Dolan, singer J. P. Donleavy, author Wellington Guernsey, 19th-century composer and writer Josephine...
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sung by the Red Army Choir was chosen by the Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy as one of his Desert Island Discs on 4 March 2007. The song appears...
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Malamud, John Irving, Anne Sexton, Nadine Gordimer, Kurt Vonnegut and J. P. Donleavy, as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. In 1968, at the feminist...
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Fairytale of New York may also refer to: A Fairy Tale of New York, 1973 J. P. Donleavy novel Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York, a 2012 television...
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51–52. ISBN 978-1-905785-11-7. Woods 2006, p.55 James Patrick Donleavy (1 January 1986). J.P. Donleavy's Ireland: in all her sins and in some of her...
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