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Outros nomes: Byrne, Bernard (baptismal name)
Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald Patrick (birth name)
Data de nascimento: 1889-11-20
Data de falecimento: 1928-06-18
Local de enterro: Rathclarin churchyard, near Coolmain Castle, Ireland
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: Ireland
Local de nascimento: New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência: Dublin London, New York
London, England, UK
Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
Riverside, Connecticut, USA
Coolmain Castle, County Cork, Ireland
Paris, France (mostrar todas 7)
Leipzig, Germany
Educação: Dublin University
The Sorbonne
University of Leipzig
Ocupação: dictionary editor
novelist
short-story writer
poet

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Donn Byrne BLIND RAFTERY AND HIS WIFE, HILARIA… de unknown

A gem of a book I just discovered in a box of my grandfather's novels. The story of an Irish poet who was blinded by smallpox and roams the environs of Galway with his wife Hilaria.

This is a short book, but the author has an amazing talent for description and drew me right into the lives of the wanderers. Blind Raftery was a pure joy to read.

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Gifford_MacShane | 1 outra resenha | Oct 12, 2022 |

Ireland; the rock whence I was hewn de Donn Byrne

Personally, I loved this book. There were stories and names and places I'd never heard of before and a few that I have heard of before. It's a fascinating book full of little bits of knowledge. I think I filled up about six pages worth of notes.

The one downside of this book is that it partially assumes that the reader knows exactly what and where it's talking about. At some point your eyes start to just see the words instead of actually reading them.

Overall, perfectly delightful.

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Rhydion | Oct 31, 2017 |

A woman of the shee and other stories, de Donn Byrne

I have read one of Byrne's books with pleasure (Messer Marco Polo) so I got this one, but as far as I recall, I have never read it. The title story is about a Norman-Irish family whose family banshee (not really a "shee" in the sense of a fairy, it seems, but the ghost of a women rescued by one of the ancestors of the clan) keens for every man of the house who has been worthy of the chivalry of his ancestor, but now a black sheep of the family has died in New York, and his old mother is troubled that the banshee has not keened for him.… (mais)

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antiquary | Nov 2, 2016 |

Messer Marco Polo de Donn Byrne

Early Pulitzer Prize winner. Odd little novel, which presents the life of Marco Polo as a story told by an Irish bard. The Polo material has more to do with Coleridge's poem than history and creates a romance between Marco Polo and Kubla Khan's daughter. Does not stand up well.

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Bjace | 1 outra resenha | Jan 30, 2014 |

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