Scholarship
Kavanagh began his writing career as the historian of the Irish theatre. His first publication, The History of Irish Theatre (1947), detailed the origins and development of theatre in Ireland.
His next work was The History of the Abbey Theatre, New York 1950. Sean O’Casey described it in a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review as “impartial history and the best book written on the subject.” In 1950 Kavanagh edited the subject Ireland in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1950–51) and wrote articles pertaining to Ireland for the American Mercury magazine (1950–1952), under the editorship of William Bradford Huie.
In 1952 with Patrick Kavanagh, he founded Kavanagh’s Weekly, a literary journal created by the two men to give the poet a forum in which to express his point-of-view. It lasted only thirteen weeks.
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