Thomas Flanagan

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was a novelist, scholar, and critic. He was the author of The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 (1959) and the novels The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994).

From the Review

April 25, 2002: O Albany!

Roscoe by William Kennedy

December 20, 2001: John Ford's West

Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride

November 29, 2001: Western Star

Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride

December 21, 2000: Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'

Novels and Stories, 1920-1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Trimalchio: An Early Versionof The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L.W. West

Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

October 5, 2000: Master of the Misbegotten

O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo by Arthur Gelb

June 29, 2000: Poor Papa (letter)

December 16, 1999: Pretty to Think So (letter)

October 21, 1999: The Best He Could Do

True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway, edited with an introduction by Patrick Hemingway

Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael Reynolds

Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture by Leonard J. Leff

Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels by Rose Marie Burwell

April 22, 1999: Waking from the Nightmare

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry

The Star Factory by Ciaran Carson

October 23, 1997: Family Secrets

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

February 16, 1989: Milton and the Schismatics (letter)

March 31, 1988: The Quaking Bog

We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society by Denis Donoghue

From New York Review Books

There You Are In these essays and reviews, Flanagan reflects on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald, Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Eugene O'Neill, Darcy O'Brien, Hemingway, and the films of John Ford.

The Year of the French The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Thomas Flanagan's best-selling novel of the Irish rebellion of 1798. "Thomas Flanagan grants this historic period a new and panoramic life." — Time

Books by Thomas Flanagan

The End of the Hunt (1994)
The Tenants of Time (1988)
The Year of the French: A Novel (1979)
The Irish Novelists, 1800-1850 (1976)