Male : Novelist & Biographer. Director of Publicity for the IRA in 1921

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Cork

Date of Birth : 1900 Date of Death : 1990 Age : 90

Pseudonyms : Real Name = John Francis Whelan

Other Work : Commercial traveller. Taught at Strawberry Hill Training College 1929-33. Edited The Bell 1940-46

Education : National Univ of Ireland & Harvard

1929-1935
Lyrics and Satires from Tom Moore (1929 Cuala, Dublin)
Midsummer Night Madness & Other Stories (1932 Cape) (1932 Viking NY)
The Life Story of Eamon de Valera (1933 Talbot Press, Dublin & Cork)
A Nest of Simple Folk (1934 Cape) (1934 Viking NY)
Constance Markievicz or The Average Revolutionary - A Biography (1934 Cape)
(In) 'Irish Poetry Since the War' (1935 in "London Mercury")
There's a Birdie in the Cage (1935 Grayson & Grayson, London)

1936-1940
Bird Alone (1936 Cape) (1936 NY)
(In) 'South Riding' (1936 in "London Mercury")
The Born Genius : A Short Story (1936 Schuman's, Detroit)
A Purse of Coppers : Short stories (1937 Cape)
The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1937 Nelson)
She Had to do Something : A Comedy in 3 Acts (1938 Cape)
The Silver Branch : A Collection of the Best Old Irish Lyrics(1938 Cape)
King of the Beggars : A Life of Daniel O'Connell (1938 Viking NY)
De Valera (1939 Penguin) - pb
Come Back to Erin (1940 Viking NY)
An Irish Journey (1940 Longmans, Green) - Paul Henry

1941-1950
The Great O'Neill : A Biography of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone 1550-1616
(1942 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY) (1952 London)
The Story of Ireland (1943 Collins)
(Preface by) D 83222 : I Did Penal Servitude (1945 Metropolitan Press, Dublin)
(Ed) Samuel Lover : Adventures of Handy Andy (1945 Parkside Press, Dublin)
Teresa & Other Stories (1947 Cape)
The Irish (1947 Penguin) - pb
The Irish : A Character Study (1948 Devin-Adair, NY)
The Short Story (1948 Collins 10/6)
The Man Who Invented Sin & other Stories (1949 Devin-Adair NY) - Elizabeth Rivers
A Summer in Italy (1949 Eyre & Spottiswoode)

1951-1960
Newman's Way : The Odyssey of John Henry Newman (1952 Longmans, Green)
South to Sicily (1953 Collins)
An Autumn in Italy (1953 Devin-Adair, NY)
(Intro & Compiled by) With the Gaels of Wexford (1955 Enniscorthy)
The Vanishing Hero : Studies in Novelists of the Twenties (1956 Eyre & Spottiswoode 21/-)
The Finest Stories of Sean O'Faolain (1957 Little Brown)
(Foreword) John O'Donoghoe : In a Quiet Land (1957 Batsford)

After 1961
(Ed) Short Stories : A Study in Pleasure (1961 Little Brown)
I Remember ! I Remember ! (1961 Little Brown)
Vive Moi ! (1964 LB)
The Heat of the Sun : Stories and Tales (1966 LB) (1966 Hart-Davis) - ss
The Talking Trees (1970 Atlantic Monthly Press) (1971 Cape £1.75)
Foreign Affairs & Other Stories (1976 Constable) (1976 LB)
Selected Stories (1978 Constable) (1978 LB)
And Again ? (1979 Constable)
Collected Stories (1980-2 Constable) - 3 vols
Midsummer Night Madness (1982 Penguin)

READING
Maurice Harmon : Sean O'Faolain - A Critical Introduction (1966 Notre Dame UP, Indiana)
(1984 Wolfhound Press, Dublin. Rev Ed)
Paul Doyle : Sean O'Faolain (1968 Twayne, NY)
J S Rippier : The Short Stories of Sean O'Faolain (1976 Smythe)
Pierce A Butler : Sean O'Faolain - A Study of the Short Fiction (1993)
Maurice Harmon : Sean O'Faolain (1994 Constable £16.95)