Denis Johnston (June 18, 1901 – August 8, 1984) was an Irish dramatist whose first play helped establish the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre, and whose second has been performed around the globe in numerous productions, starring Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains and Errol Flynn among others. Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammoir, initially using the Abbey Theatre 's Peacock studio John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (14 September 1910 &ndash 18 July 1973 was an English Film Actor of the 1950s 1960s and early 1970s William Claude Rains (10 November &ndash30 May) was an English award-winning Actor and Film star whose career spanned 47 years Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn ( June 20, 1909 &ndash October 14, 1959) was an Australian Film Actor, most
Johnston was a protégé of Yeats and Shaw, and had a stormy friendship with Sean O'Casey. George Bernard Shaw ( (26 July 1856 &ndash 2 November 1950 was an Irish Playwright. Seán O'Casey ( Irish Seán Ó Cathasaigh (30 March 1880 &ndash 18 September 1964 was a major Irish dramatist and Memoirist A committed irish He was a pioneer of television and war reporting. He worked as a lawyer in the 1920s and 1930s before joining the BBC as a writer and producer, first in radio and then in the fledgling television service. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. During the Second World War he served as a BBC war correspondent, reporting from El Alamein to Buchenwald. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including El Alamein (or Al Alamayn) ( العلمين is a town in northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea coast in Matruh Governorate. Buchenwald concentration camp (German Konzentrationslager or 'KZ' Buchenwald) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain near For this he was awarded an OBE 1945. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar He then became Director of Programmes for the television service.
Johnston later moved to the United States and taught at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and other universities. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. He kept extensive diaries throughout his life, now deposited in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and these together with his many articles and essays give a distinctive picture of his times and the people he knew. The Trinity College Library, the centrally-administered Library of Trinity College, Dublin, is the largest library in Ireland. Trinity College Dublin ( TCD; Irish Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath; Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae He received honorary degrees from the University of Ulster and Mount Holyoke College and was a member of Aosdána. The University of Ulster ( UU; Ollscoil Uladh is a multi-centre University located in Northern Ireland and is the largest single university on the Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
His daughter Jennifer Johnston is a respected novelist and playwright, and his grandson Alex Johnston is also a playwright. Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930) is an Irish Novelist winner of the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest
Works
Plays
- The Old Lady Says 'No!' (1929)
- The Moon in the Yellow River (1931)
- A Bride for the Unicorn (1933)
- Storm Song (1934)
- Blind Man's Buff (1936) (with Ernst Toller)
- The Golden Cuckoo (1939)
- The Dreaming Dust (1940)
- A Fourth for Bridge (1948)
- 'Strange Occurrence on Ireland's Eye' (1956)
- Tain Bo Cuailgne - Pageant of Cuchulainn (1956)
- The Scythe and the Sunset (1958)
Biography
- In Search of Swift (1959)
- John Millington Synge (1965)
Autobiography
- Nine Rivers from Jordan (1953)
- Orders and Desecrations (1992) (ed. Ernst Toller ( December 1, 1893 – May 22, 1939) was a German communist Playwright, best known for his Rory Johnston)
Non-Fiction
- The Brazen Horn (1976)
Opera Libretti
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1957)
- Nine Rivers from Jordan (1968)
References
- Adams, Bernard. Denis Johnston: A Life. Lilliput Press, 2001.
- Igoe, Vivien. A Literary Guide to Dublin. Methuen, 1994.
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