Frank O'Connor Summary

Frank O'Connor (the pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan) wrote some of the finest short fiction of this century. Although now only some of his two hundred stories are well-known, during his lifetime he had... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard T. Gill In ["Domestic Relations"] Frank O'Connor proves once again his extraordinary mastery of the short-story form. As always, the settings, the chara... Read more

Critical Essay by William James Smith Most of the stories in [Domestic Relations] appeared originally in the New Yorker, where they served to confound those who criticize that magazine's ficti... Read more

Critical Essay by Gary T. Davenport At the time of his death in 1966, Frank O'Connor was generally regarded as an authority on the short story and one of the century's foremost practiti... Read more

Critical Essay by James H. Matthews The violence and idealism of the events of 1916 to 1923 created in Ireland a mood of national hysteria. At least that was the voice heard by O'Connor trying... Read more

Critical Essay by William Trevor Frank O'Connor belongs with William Carleton, Sheridan Le Fanu, James Stephens, George Moore, Somerville and Ross—Irish writers who achieved their great... Read more

Critical Essay by James T. Farrell There is a sensitive tenderness in Mr. O'Connor's ["The Saint and Mary Kate"] that overrides its patches of irony. Likewise, because of ... Read more

Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett [Mr. O'Connor] has little or none of the professional Irishman in him or of the brothiness, feyness, sentimentality, that mar so much of Irish writing. At his... Read more

Critical Essay by James H. Matthews "I saw life through a veil of literature." This statement in his autobiography defines something important about Frank O'Connor. After writing... Read more

Frank O' Connor was born Michael O' Donovan in 1903 in Cork, Ireland. He was the only child Minnie and Michael O' Donovan. Financial issues led to many problems with his family. His father was a dr... Read more