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“... not even matter how the story turned out in the end.’ Ellen, a first novel by the Irish author Ita Daly, is another work in the naturalistic mode: almost, in fact, a Tale of Mean Streets. But here the first-person narrative with its fastidious detachment reveals a highly-disciplined writer whose concern with the ‘scrupulous meanness’ of an ...”

“... falling down.’ This, if it was taken seriously, would put him very far apart from Dublin’s Ita Daly, a classic ironist, rueful, calm and clear. In The Engine of Owl-Light, at one point, the storyteller is haunted by his hostile father. In A Singular Attraction Pauline Kennedy, a sensible, middle-aged teacher, finds her dead Mammy always at her ...”

“... poetry every week, and this is where many Irish writers, including Neil Jordan, Desmond Hogan and Ita Daly, published their first work. His brother Louis Marcus has been one of the guiding spirits of the Irish film industry. Estella Solomon’s brother, Bethel, was a distinguished gynaecologist and master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. During the ...”