Murray, Peter (2018) Big causes and small nations: Michael Sayers, writing, fascism, communism and Jewish-Irishness. Irish Studies Review, 26 (4). pp. 531-548. ISSN 0967-0882
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Abstract
This article begins by examining a series of 1944 articles by
Michael Sayers published in the New York newspaper PM and
the official response denying the existence of anti-Semitism in
Ireland they prompted. The content of the articles and the character of the official response to them are evaluated and the career
of their author is then outlined. A Dublin-born Jewish writer,
Sayers became politically active in the USA during the 1940s
and, having been “blacklisted” as the Cold War intensified,
returned to Europe to continue working mainly as a pseudonymous writer of television scripts. He was eventually able to return
to New York where he died in 2010 aged 98. While “blacklisted”
during the 1950s Sayers had a play staged under his real name in
Dublin without controversy despite the repeated attacks being
made in the city at that time on authors and actors whose alleged
left-wing leanings rendered them objectionable to Catholic vigilantes. The paper concludes with an examination of this episode.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Anti-fascism; Antisemitism; World War II; Cold War; anti-communist blacklisting; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 13136 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09670882.2018.1519967 |
Depositing User: | Peter Murray |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 14:42 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Studies Review |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13136 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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