tag:https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/node/%25/atom 2026-06-01T08:18:54+01:00 admin niwa@bt48.com 1215 Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39 Boyd Letters Boyd Estate 1977 Dec 6th Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Boyd082 Letter O'Casey, German English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd082 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd082_1.jpg LHL Archive COPY As from 28 Rosetta Avenue, Belfast 7 6th September 1977 M. Dumay, 14 Rue de Gaulle, 21240 Talant, Prance, Dear M. Dumay, My friend Eileen O'Casey kindly gave me your name when I was enquiring about a French translator for one of my plays called THE FLATS. This play has had great success throughout Ireland, has also had a successful production in Germany, and is going on at a New York off-off-Broadway theatre for the 2nd time this Autumn. Altogether it has proved to be very popular play, and has been compared to O'Casey - hence Eileen O'Casey's interest in my work. When I was lecturing at the Sorbonne about a year ago a Paris group were interested in a French production, and I began to think about a French translation. If you would be interested I would send you a copy of the play (it has been published and gone into two editions), and T would also send you some of the notices from Irish, American, and German newspapers. I understand from Eileen O'Casey that you have already translated FIGURE IN THE NIGHT and some of Sean's later plays. I don't think, therefore, that you would find my idiom particularly difficult. I would of course give you every co-operation. I am familiar enough with French, and visit Paris from time to time, but I thinght it best to write to you in English. Yours sincerely, JOHN BOYD (signed) (Copy of original letter transcribed from shorthand, due to loss of copy) Text Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 13:39