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(June 1936-March 1938; 1-22), a literary magazine edited by Michael O’Donovan [Frank O’Connor]. Contributors included Brian Coffey, Daniel Corkery, Denis Devlin, Michael MacLaverty, Ewart Milne, Sean O’Faolain, Liam O’Flaherty, and Mervyn Wall. Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day Co. 1991), Vol. 3: from 1936-38 Ireland Today briefly attempted to emulate blend of literary and social concern practised in Irish Statesman, and closed by right-wing Catholic agitation against its support for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War [91]; included MacGreevy’s review of Denis Devlin’s Intercessions, in Ireland Today, II (1937), pp.81-82 [248n.]. CATL, Vol. 1 (1-6)-Vol. III (1-3), Jue 1936-March 1938 [18 of 22], contribs. incl. Robert Barton, E. childers, Eric Gill, Kavanagh, O’Donnell, O’Connor (O’Donovan), O’Faolain, Robinson. [Hyland 219; Oct. 1995; note that Hyland offers a prize to anyone who can identify his grandfather by his pseud. and explain same.]
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