MacManus, Francis. Statue for a Square. First Edition. Dublin, The Talkot Press Limited, 1945. 16.7cm x 12.7cm. 286 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with external wear on the cover.

Francis MacManus was born Patrick Francis MacManus in Kilkenny on 8 November 1909 to Bernard MacManus and Julianne née Murphy, the eldest of 5 children. He was first educated at St. John’s School, Kilkenny, then De La Salle Brothers’ School and finally the local Christian Brothers’ School. When he finished school, he won a science scholarship to University College Dublin, but deferred it in order to train as a teacher at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, in 1927.

Francis MacManus wrote 15 books. These include Stand and Give Challenge (1934) which was the first part of a trilogy of novels about the Gaelic poet Donnacha Ruadh Mac Conmara, followed by Candle for the Proud (1936) and Men Withering (1939). Men Withering received the Harmsworth Award of the Irish Academy of Letters for the best Irish novel of the year (1939). Another trilogy
explored the impact of history on ordinary Irish people and greed for land: This House was Mine (1937), Flow on, Lovely River (1941) and Watergate (1942). The Greatest of These (1943), about conflict in the Catholic Church, was so popular that it was reprinted four times within four years. Statue for a Square (1945) was Francis MacManus’s first satirical novel. A later novel, The Fire in the Dust, was written in 1950 attacking Irish “so-called Jansenism”. His last novel, American Son, was written in 1959. (National Library of Ireland).

• Keywords: Irish Literature · Literature · Modern Literature · Poetry
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 81222AB

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