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John Guinan


Born
in near Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
May 20, 1874

Died
March 07, 1945


John Guinan (b. Ballindown, near Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, 20 May 1874; d. Sutton, Dublin, Ireland, 7 March 1945)

John Guinan was an Irish playwright and civil servant who wrote four plays for the Abbey Theatre, “The Cuckoo's Nest” (1913), “The Plough Lifters” (1916), “Black Oliver” (1927), and “The Rune of Healing” (1931). He also wrote short stories for Irish newspapers, but these were never collected. His story "The Watcher o' the Dead" (Cornhill Magazine, June 1929), concerning a curious custom associated with the cemetery Gort na Marbh, was reprinted by Montague Summers in The Supernatural Omnibus (1931), and thus Guinan rates mention here. One other folklorish and borderline weird story is “The Scythe Bearer” (Blackwood’s Magazine, ...more

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“Feuds are forgiven, if not forgotten, in the hour of death

("The Watcher O' The Dead")”
― John Guinan, The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories
tags: death, feuds, forgivness, grudges
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“every man has his own story, his own agony

("The Watcher O' The Dead")”
― John Guinan, The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories
tags: author, fiction, writing
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“There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words

("The Watcher O' The Dead")”
― John Guinan, The Supernatural Omnibus- Being A Collection of Stories
tags: fiction, story, storytelling, writer
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