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An Enigma Explained BARRY BYRNE IT IS NOW five years since "Finnegans Wake" appeared, and the interest in James Joyce and in this, his last epic book, has shown no sign of diminishing....

DEFENSE HOUSING (June 1942)

either in a plant in another locality or in a temporary factory located on the site itself. These de-mountable houses are of simple construction and of a generally garage-like appearance. They are...

FLIGHT FROM EIRE (April 1941)

Flight From Eire By BARRY BYRNE TAMES JOYCE was the product and the victim JAME his age; the product, because his literary career was a full response to the prevalent tendency toward obscurity...

APARTMENTS FOR THE POOR (September 1939)

Apartments for the Poor Tile social benefits of slum clearance are recognized as here to stay and spread. By Barry A VALID criticism of the earlier multiple housing ventures, initiated during...

"FINNEGANS WAKE" (July 1939)

July 7, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 279 "Finnegans Wake" By BARRY BYRNE T O THOSE READERS who enjoy immersing themselves in a sea of both recognizable and manufactured words, James Joyce's book may...

"Megalopolitana" (August 1938)

384 THE COMMONWEAL August 5, 1938 Where water for livestock or domestic use is scarce in years of drought farmers are encouraged to construct dugouts. These are simply large pits excavated in...

Surrealism Passes (July 1937)

262 The Commonweal July 2, 1937 SURREALISM PASSES By BARRY BYRNE SURREALISM is in fashion. Its tour of the country, after the publicity and attention that marked this exhibition at the...

Two Art Exhibitions (February 1935)

February I5, I935 The Commonweal 449 TWO ART EXHIBITIONS ALBRIZIO'S STATIONS T HE INCREASING influence of the Liturgical Arts Society, and the well-sustained quality of Liturgical Arts, its...

Books (November 1934)

November 23, 1934 The Commonweal' 12 5 From C6zanne to Surrealism Plastic Redirection; in Twentieth Century Painting, by James Johnson 8weeney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I N...

Books (November 1933)

so THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1933 Coeur d'Alene, Ida. T O the Editor : There is reason to think that pressure will soon be brought to bear upon President Roosevelt to give official recognition...

Books (October 1933)

564 THE COMMONWEAL October 13, I933 The play leaves her final decision in doubt, but there is an intimation that at long last she understands. The regeneration of Ferguson himself is...

Fourteen Mosaics (May 1933)

7 ~ THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1933 THE CROSS MARKET By FRIEDRICH VOl, r MINKUS L UIGINA had had much trouble. She had been obliged to let little Natalino, her only child, join the angels, though...

Modern Architecture (April 1933)

Wi MODERN ARCHITECTURE By BARRY BYRNE HILE the housing section of the exhibition of the Architectural League, at the American Fine Arts Society Building, may be classed as propaganda, it was so...

Two Shows (February 1933)

February 22, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 463 TWO SHOWS By BARRY BYRNE AT THE time Mr. Lewis Mumford's book, "Sticks and Stones," appeared in 1924, the matter of architecture was thought to be...

Books (March 1927)

than Fejevary's son. Silas is dead; his son, a weakling of the soil, is already an aging farmer with a monomania for corn. But Silas's granddaughter, Madeline, whose mother was a Feje- vary, is now...

Books (June 1926)

162 THE COMMONWEAL June i6, 1926 not give a bad performance. He had his very fine...

A New Architecture (November 1925)

A NEW ARCHITECTURE By BARRY BYRNE SOMEWHERE in Gilbert Chesterton's writing occurs the idea, the terminology of which escapes memory, but which in effect is this, that there are great efforts...

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Byrne, James MacCregor

Byrne, James MacGregor

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Byrne, Katharine

Byrne, Lawrence Joseph

Byrne, Robert

BYRNES, CHARLES J.

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Byrns, Ruth

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BYRON, (REV.) J. PAUL

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