Una Troy Walsh (21 May 1910 â€" 27 September 1993) was an Irish
novelist and playwright who wrote under the names Elizabeth Connor and
Una Troy.Troy was born in Fermoy, County Cork,[1] the daughter of John
S. Troy and Brigid Agnes Hayes. Her father was a lawyer and a judge.
Her sister Gráinne (or Grania, 1913-1970) was a musician, and her
sister Shevaun (1923-1993) was a poet.[2] She was educated at the
Loreto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin.[3]Writing under the pen name of
"Elizabeth Connor",[4][5] she began her career in 1936 with the
publication of the novel Mount Prospect, which was banned in the Irish
Free State.[6] Adapted as a play, it garnered the Shaw Prize for new
playwrights and was performed on the Abbey stage in 1940. Two
subsequent plays by Troy Swans and Geese and An Apple a Day, were also
performed at the Abbey in the early 1940s.[7][8]In 1938, Dead Star's
Light was published. The protagonist, John Davern, was based on the
character of IRA revolutionary idealist George Lennon of West
Waterford. While not banned, it did elicit censure from Troy's parish
priest in Clonmel.[5] Dead Star's Light was performed on the Abbey
stage in 1947 as The Dark Road.[4]
novelist and playwright who wrote under the names Elizabeth Connor and
Una Troy.Troy was born in Fermoy, County Cork,[1] the daughter of John
S. Troy and Brigid Agnes Hayes. Her father was a lawyer and a judge.
Her sister Gráinne (or Grania, 1913-1970) was a musician, and her
sister Shevaun (1923-1993) was a poet.[2] She was educated at the
Loreto Convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin.[3]Writing under the pen name of
"Elizabeth Connor",[4][5] she began her career in 1936 with the
publication of the novel Mount Prospect, which was banned in the Irish
Free State.[6] Adapted as a play, it garnered the Shaw Prize for new
playwrights and was performed on the Abbey stage in 1940. Two
subsequent plays by Troy Swans and Geese and An Apple a Day, were also
performed at the Abbey in the early 1940s.[7][8]In 1938, Dead Star's
Light was published. The protagonist, John Davern, was based on the
character of IRA revolutionary idealist George Lennon of West
Waterford. While not banned, it did elicit censure from Troy's parish
priest in Clonmel.[5] Dead Star's Light was performed on the Abbey
stage in 1947 as The Dark Road.[4]
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