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Catriona Ryan has more than achieved what she set out to do. She has emphatically presented Tom Mac Intyre as a writer with a distinctive voice who not only provides a crucial link in the chain that goes back through Kavanagh to Yeats, but as a bridging figure, a transgressive author whose reflections on the Irish literary scene, and on writing more generally, have much to tell us about the ways in which constrictive critical currents can cut off living literary streams. It is clear from Catriona Ryan's painstaking excavation that Mac Intyre has been wrongly neglected. Her thoughtful and perceptive critical intervention will remedy that wrong. - Willy Maley, Litteraria Pragensia, 22:44 (2013), 131-134, p. 134. This is a critically independent piece of work that very much constructs and defines its own project, and maps an intellectual terrain of its own. It is an impressively original and also critically self-assured piece. It is marked by a sense of intellectual brio and also by the excitement of discovery. - Dr Steven Vine, Swansea University Since Tom Mac Intyre is a writer and dramatist who has received very little critical attention, this work intervenes in an under-researched area and offers an innovative and valuable extension of the frontier of knowledge in the field of Irish literary and dramatic studies. - Dr Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Dr Catriona Ryan is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Swansea University. She undertook her MPhil at the National University of Ireland, Cork, and has recently completed her PhD at Swansea University. She has published an essay on the work of Tom Mac Intyre in Strays from the Ether: The Theatre of Tom Mac Intyre edited by Bernadette Sweeney and Marie Kelly (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2010).

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