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- Desmond_MacNamara abstract "Desmond J. MacNamara (10 May 1918 - 8 January 2008), born in Dublin, Ireland, was a sculptor, painter, stage and art designer and novelist. After graduating from University College Dublin and the National College of Art in Dublin in the early 1940s, he found a place as stage designer and prop maker for the Abbey Theatre and at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, working with the legendary duo Michael Macliammoir and Hilton Edwards. He was an uncredited art designer on Henry V (1944 film). His sculptures are on display in the National Art Gallery of Ireland and at the Dublin Writers Museum.In the 1940s and early 1950s, he and his first wife ran what evolved into a literary salon on Dublin's Grafton Street, a posh thoroughfare today, where they hosted many figures in the Irish arts. The eminent traffic included Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, Anthony Cronin, Valentine Iremonger, J. P. Donleavy, Gainor Crist (the model for protagonist Sebastian Dangerfield in Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man), Edna O'Brien, actor Dan O'Herlihy, Ernest Gebler, John Ryan (Dublin artist), and other literary personalities. Wartime emigres Nobel laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger and his wife were frequent guests. Major memoirs of the period cite MacNamara as a pivotal figure in Dublin's cultural underground. This post-war Dublin bohemian scene was immortalized in Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man, where MacNamara appears as MacDoon, the Kangaroo-suited artist"Small dancing figure. It is said his eyes are like the crown jewels. A sharp red beardon his chin. A Leprauchaun for sure. Can't speak too loudly to Mac, else he might blow away."In the early 1950s, after a fire at the Abbey Theater, MacNamara moved to London. There he married his second wife Priscilla ("Skylla") Novy, a film studio script reader and children's novelist. They settled in West Hampstead and raised two sons, Oengus, an actor, and Oisin, an academic. MacNamara taught art at the Marylebone Institute, contributed reviews to the New Statesman and other periodicals, and published books on picture framing, the artistic uses of papier-mache, and on puppetry. Upon retirement from teaching, he added a biography of Eamon de Valera, aimed at young readers, and two seriocomic works of fiction. The Book of Intrusions (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994), which the Chicago Tribune critic called a "magnificent novel," appeared in 1994. Another critic calls it "an important critique of conservative Irish nationalism" that locates Irish identity in a 'shared but heterogeneous past rather than in a nativist mythology of Irishness" MacNamara's final work of fiction was Confessions of an Irish Werewolf (2006).".
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