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Paul Vincent Carroll 1900-1968, Irish playwright. His plays, vigorous commentaries on the conflicts of village life in Ireland, include Shadow and Substance (1937), The White Steed (1939), The Wise Have Not Spoken (1946), and The Wayward Saint (1955).

Bibliography: See his Irish Stories and Plays (1958).

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Carroll, Paul Vincent (1900–68), Irish dramatist, who attacked the Catholic Church through his plays, and became as well known in England and the United States as in Ireland. He came into prominence with his second play, Things that are Caesar's (1932; London and NY, 1933), produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as were The Wise have not Spoken (1933; London, 1946; NY, 1954) and Shadow and Substance (1934; London, 1943). The last, about the conflict between a canon and a liberal-minded schoolmaster, is perhaps his best play, and had a long run on Broadway (1937–8), as did The White Steed (NY, 1939; London, 1947). In 1942 a war play set in Glasgow, The Strings, My Lord, are False, was seen in Dublin at the Olympia Theatre, where it was well received, and in New York. Among Carroll's later plays were The Old Foolishness (London, 1943), The Devil Came from Dublin (1952; London, 1953), and The Wayward Saint (NY, 1955). We Have Ceased to Live was published posthumously in 1972. Carroll was a schoolmaster in Glasgow, 1921–37; he helped to found the Curtain Theatre there and later, with James Bridie, the Citizens' Theatre, for which he wrote Green Cars Go East (1940), set in the Glasgow slums. All Carroll's plays are marked by sympathy, humour, and subtle characterization; his studies of Irish priests are especially memorable.

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