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	Sebastian Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sebastian Barry (born 5 July 1955 in Dublin) is an Irish playwright and novelist.
		Barry wrote The Steward of Christendom and The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, both of which are about the dislocations (physical and otherwise) of non-nationalist or loyal British Irish people during the political upheavals of the early 20th century.
		Barry's maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, who is the main character of The Steward of Christendom, was the chief superintendent of the (unarmed) Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) from 1913-1922 and loyal to the British Crown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebastian_Barry (241 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| A Long, Long Way\| Sebastian Barry
		Sebastian Barry knows this, and knows that the vast movement of history, politics, and war is a cloth woven of the threads of personal experience, of the ways in which we come to cherish personal beliefs.
		Barry's knowledge of his characters is deeply felt, and their story is shared by all of us who live in a world continually threatened by war and by unexamined beliefs.
		Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/long_long_way.html (3604 words)

	Sebastian Barry again in fine Irish voice
		From the fifth row center stage I was made privy to the most private thoughts and ravings of Tom Dunn as he languishes in the confines of an old-folks home and broods on his life and on his role as a Dublin police superintendent during the formative years of the Irish Free State.
		Barry's first novel, The Engine of Owl Light, an experimental jaunt, was less successful when it appeared in 1986, causing the author to turn away from novel writing.
		Barry textures his narrative with the same kind of archaic colloquialisms, the same lyricism and recurring imagery, as the Aeneid.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/03/07/barry.html (967 words)

	Sebastian Barry Visits Ransom Center
		Barry, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center, was a finalist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Long Long Way.
		Barry: "It does change things, but your readership multiplies by six or seven times, and you reach people all over the world—and that can't be bad.
		Barry: "I would be happy for people to see the immense amount of work that didn't come to anything—like prisoners still stuck in there...
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/newsletters/2006/summer/barry (383 words)

	Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barry is a given name for males, being the English form of the Irish name Bairre short for Fionnbharr.
		Barry can also be the anglicised version of the Irish names Barra or Bearrach.
		John Barry (1745-1803), officer in the Continental Navy, Father of the American Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barry (158 words)

	Sebastian Barry Biography
		Whereas Booker contender John Banville was born in Wicklow and lives in Dublin, Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin and lives in County Wicklow.
		Sebastian Barry was born on 5 July 1955 in Dublin and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, before taking up a succession of academic posts.
		Sebastian Barry is a versatile writer and as well as novels and plays, has also written poetry and a novel for children.
	www.biogs.com /booker/barry.html (248 words)

	A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry in interview. The Sebastian Barry interview.
		Sebastian Barry: In this case, yes, though The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, which is being republished by Faber next year, was written first as a play, a play that didn’t work.
		Sebastian Barry: Not when I started, but, as I say, as I went on, and felt the men were allowing me in near them, and I could see what was happening and hear what they were saying, I began to feel a strange responsibility.
		Sebastian Barry: I was determined to try and show exactly what they went through, so that if you wished to call them traitors, or just lads that went out, or even heroes, you might know with some reasonable exactitude what they went through.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_article_a_long_long_way_sebastian_barry_interview.htm (1903 words)

	News Releases - CUA Office of Public Affairs
		Sebastian Barry will read from his novel, “A Long Long Way,” which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Britain’s most prestigious literary award.
		Praised as a “master storyteller” by The Wall Street Journal, Barry also is the author of the novels “The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty” (1999) and “Annie Dunne” (2003); the poetry collections “Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever” (1989) and “The Water-Colourist” (1983); and a novel for children, “Elsewhere: the Adventures of Belemus” (1985).
		Barry also will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase.
	publicaffairs.cua.edu /news/06BarryReadingCalItem.htm (201 words)

	Hinterland - Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There are interesting thematic and structural feints in Sebastian Barry’s new play, and it contains enough political, philosophical, and psychological threads to suggest a genuine attempt at theatrical discourse.
		Barry attempts to get inside the mind and heart of this character, and in doing so hopes to illustrate some of the pressing issues affecting contemporary Ireland in a way which is also universal.
		Barry's conclusions also tend towards the obvious and are arguably overstated.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater2/Hinterland.htm (775 words)

	Amazon.com: The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty: Books: Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Barry's lyric prose, astute use of detail and poignant insight are a fit match for his tragic theme of an innocent buffeted by history.
		Sebastian Barry's The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty places the protagonist in the small village of Sligo where he is an innocent among angry partisans.
		Barry, also a poet and best known--at least before this novel--as a playwright, brings to his fictional characters a narrative style somewhat at odds with what one might expect.
	www.amazon.com /Whereabouts-Eneas-McNulty-Sebastian-Barry/dp/0140280189 (2236 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Long Long Way: Books: Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sebastian Barry shows great depth in describing both the conflicts of war but more importantly the agonies of war, the fear and hopes of the soldiers.
		But in this case I think the fact that Sebastian Barry is a poet as well as a novelist and dramatist may explain why his style is so good, so capable of conveying emotion (mind you I haven't read any of his poetry).
		Sebastian Barry's book is a timely contribution to the re-awakening of consciousness on this turbulent period of Irish and European history.
	www.amazon.co.uk /A-Long-Way-Sebastian-Barry/dp/0571218008 (1131 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE WHEREABOUTS OF ENEAS MCNULTY by Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the years between 1916-1922, when southern Ireland was on the verge of gaining its independence, there were the nationalists—men and women who fought side by side to gain Ireland's freedom from Britain—and there were the Crown forces—made up of soldiers, the Royal Irish Constabulary, and, later, the hated Black and Tans.
		And there were also men and women who were ill-prepared or unwilling to live political lives: people who refused or were unable to take sides and, as a result, were shunned by their families, communities, and their country.
		Sebastian Barry's The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is the story of one such man, of good intentions and their sometimes disastrous effects, and the struggle between the personal and the political.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/whereabouts_of_eneas_mcnulty.asp (923 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		The Irish playwright Sebastian Barry has taken those archetypal plagues of the human condition and visited them upon a more modern hero, less celebrated and more pacific than the first Aeneas, but equally unmoored.
		In the same way he fails to understand the rumors that follow his mum on their shopping trips, he is unaware of the sometimes villainous intricacies of town politics -- the factions of rebellion and nationalism, the arrival of the brutal Black and Tans -- as he grows up.
		The story that emerges through Barry's lens is so cohesive, so gracefully rendered, that his words have the stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/sebastian_barry.htm (1083 words)

	Powell's Books - A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
		With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie?s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
		As such, this somber novel — unlike Barry's moving previous book, Annie Dunne, whose eponymous narrator is Willie's younger sister — often lacks the nonsoldier human faces necessary to fully counterpoint the coarseness of military conflict, though its inevitably bleak conclusion is heartrending.
		Sebastian Barry captures this brutal war and the life of Willie with masterful grace and lyrical skill.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25631&cgi=biblio&show=HARDCOVER:NEW:0670033804:24.95 (653 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Observer review: A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
		Like the rest of his generation, the hero of Sebastian Barry's fourth novel was born at the wrong time, in the 'dying days of the century', which made him just old enough to enlist at the outbreak of the First World War.
		Yet here, Barry sets himself the task of spinning this ephemeral life into fully fledged story, in which a scrawny, mewling baby, Willie, is greeted as 'a scrap of a song none the less, a point of light in the sleety darkness, a beginning'.
		The poetic quality of Barry's writing, in which a description of the arrival of winter comes with three dazzling similes, may initially seem to add a layer of inappropriate luxury and beauty to the bleak subject matter, but it serves a deeper purpose here, reflecting Willie's faltering understanding of the war.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2005/story/0,,1546448,00.html (778 words)

	Playbill News: Irish Rep Starts Barry's Sligo, with Imported Cusack, April 12
		As reported earlier, Playwright Sebastian Barry's (The Steward of Christendom, Prayers of Sherkin) family history inspired his story about that class of Irish people whose realizations of independence and self-rule often fell short of their expectations.
		Playwright Sebastian Barry was educated at Catholic University School and Trinity College, Dublin.
		Barry's White Woman Street was staged at the Bush Theatre, London in 1992 and toured to the Peacock Theatre.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/51593.html (697 words)

	A Long Long Way By Sebastian Barry, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, opinion & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Barry leaves no doubt about the viciousness of the conflict or the stupidity of the generals and the senior English officers.
		Barry writes with poetic power about ugliness and evil and about the tenacity of the human spirit.
		But Sebastian Barry is telling us that many innocent young men must die in war while the page of their life is still blank.
	www.americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?articleTypeID=31&textID=4107&issueID=526 (1003 words)

	Sebastian Barry
		Sebastian Barry was born on 5 July 1955 in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Sebastian Barry also won the Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year award in the same year.
		Barry has also written poetry, including the collections The Water-Colourist (1983) and Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1989); a novel for children, Elsewhere: the Adventures of Belemus (1985); and short novels, Time Out of Mind/Strappado Square (1983).
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth02B11P375512626533 (438 words)

	Amazon.de: A Long Long Way: English Books: Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The novel's dauntless realism and acute figurative language recall the finest chroniclers of war (Willie supposes that dead French soldiers "lay all about their afflicted homeland like beetroots rotting in the fields").
		Still, Barry lingers too long on the particulars of the battlefield--the lice, the putrid muck--while failing to adequately develop the disasters Willie must face back in Ireland.
		Sebastian Barry is a master of the English language, he can say so much in so few words.
	www.amazon.de /A-Long-Way-Sebastian-Barry/dp/0571218008 (643 words)

	Sebastian Barry pulls new gems from familiar Irish ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sebastian Barry's superb new novel, "Annie Dunne," opens with a scene familiar to anyone conversant with Irish fiction.
		Two children from Dublin are being left for the summer with an old maiden aunt on a hardscrabble farm as their parents go to London to search for work.
		Wonder at Barry's talent, at the lyricism he discovers in the ordinary business of living, at his sheer creative concentration in the novel's execution, but most of all, wonder at Annie herself, who emerges from the novel as one of the most memorable women in Irish fiction.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/25/RV136537.DTL (784 words)

	Sebastian Barry, Annie Dunne — Sandy McKinney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The elements of the actual plot could probably be outlined in ten sentences, but the overtones are what make it what it is. It's not what happens but to whom and how it happens and the wider significance of what doesn't happen that makes this novel sing.
		Perhaps it is because author Sebastian Barry is essentially a playwright that he seems to expect the auditory and dramatic elements of every line to ring in his imaginary reader's ears.
		This novel, from beginning to end, is a symphony of the simple, the daily, made heroic by the author's astonishingly humane treatment of the human in all its grit and glory.
	www.alsopreview.com /columns/books/dunne.html (315 words)

	The Steward of Christendom
		Biographical Note:Barry, Sebastian (1955-) was born in Dublin, Ireland to Francis and Joan Barry.
		In The Steward of Christendom the main character is Thomas Dunne, Barry’s great-grandfather.
		Throughout the play Barry shows the feelings and sentiments of a family of nationalists, and questions the idea that Irish history is synonymous with Irish vs. English history.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~sschreib/autumn_02/investigations/steward.html (953 words)

	Barry Plays: 1 by Sebastian Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Only True History of Lizzie Finn, is based on the life of the author's own grandmother and in it "Barry uses Lizzie's dilemma to explore the economic decay of the 1890s landowning class and the whaleboned snobberies of rural Ireland" (Guardian).
		"Sebastian Barry's plays are about history, but not in any very obvious or familiar sense...The history that informs these plays is a history of counter-currents, of lost strands, of untold stories.
		Against the simple narrative of Irish history as a long tale of colonisation and resistance, Barry releases more complex stories of people who are, in one way or another, a disgrace to that history...In Sebastian Barry's luminous plays, grace and disgrace are not opposites but constant companions." (Fintan O'Toole)
	www.methuen.co.uk /titles.php/itemcode/381 (307 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
		Sebastian Barry is a playwright, novelist, and poet whose best-known play, The Steward of Christendom, has won numerous awards and garnered international acclaim.
		Barry lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children.
		In others, great barriers of darkness and not knowing close off the past.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/annie_dunne2.asp (1930 words)

	Book Reviews - Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
		The addition of the children energizes Annie and a potential suitor for Sarah makes her fear for her place on the farm.
		Sebastian Barry has captured the essence of rural Ireland and the mindset of an aging rural woman looking back on her life.
		The New York Times says of Annie Dunne, "Barry is also a playwright, and his dialogue is clear and musical.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /annie_dunne (191 words)

	Chapter One: THE WHEREABOUTS OF ENEAS McNULTY by Sebastian Barry
		Chapter One: THE WHEREABOUTS OF ENEAS McNULTY by Sebastian Barry
		IN THE MIDDLE OF the lonesome town, at the back of John Street, in the third house from the end, there is a little room.
		When in truth the world is simple with pleasure, and precise, and he hears the boys calling Jonno in the dusk and thinks of the apples going off in the ganseys as the light fails in the arms of the sycamores.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/03/07/barrych1.html (1928 words)

	Table of contents for Out of history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From Rhetoric to Narrative: The Poems of Sebastian Barry Peter Denman 8 3
		Everyman?s Story is the Whisper of God: The Sacred Nature of the Secular in the Dramaturgy of Sebastian Barry David Cregan 59 6
		Children of the Light amid the Risky Dancers: Sebastian Barry?s Naifs and the Poetry of Humanism Christina Hunt Mahony 78 7
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033357.html (295 words)

	Carysfort Press
		Barry is recognized as one of Ireland’s greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S. colleges in Irish Studies and in Drama departments.
		This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of the writer’s career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays.
		The essays address Barry’s engagement with the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland and also with issues that inform postcolonial critical theory.
	www.carysfortpress.com /titles/sebastianbarry.html (175 words)

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