This week saw Trinity Literary Society (LitSoc) welcome Eadaoin Lynch to discuss her research on an unpublished, never-performed play by Louis MacNeice. A former Trinity student, LitSoc member, and now working on a PhD at the University of St Andrews, Lynch has a fantastic future ahead of her, evident in her entertaining and in-depth presentation of such a little-known work. Commissioned by the Abbey Theatre in 1939, the one-act play, Blacklegs, appears to have been abandoned after the first draft and ultimately never performed. A single manuscript exists in the New York Public Library, and merely a photocopy in Oxford. Only four critical mentions are … Continue reading Understanding the Implications of Lost Pieces for Well-Known Writers