Brinsley MacNamara
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Brinsley MacNamara (1890 - 1963) - born John Weldon - was a writer born near Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland. He worked for the Abbey Theatre from 1909, and later as the registrar of the National Gallery of Ireland. McNamara is most famous for his first printed novel, Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918). He continued to write for many years after the publication of this controversial novel. Later works include The Glorious Uncertainty (1923) and Look at the Heffernans (1926).
McNamara married Helena Degidon, a schoolteacher, in 1920. He died in Dublin in February 1963.
[edit] Other Works
The Clanking of Chains
The Various Lives of Marcus Igoe
Margater Gillan
The Mirror in the Dusk
