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}}'''Juanita Casey''' (10 October 1925-24 October 2012) was a poet, playwright, novelist and artist as well as a horse and zebra trainer and breeder.


'''Juanita Casey''' (10 October 1925 – 24 October 2012) was a poet, playwright, novelist and artist as well as a horse and zebra trainer and breeder. Her writing celebrates her time in Ireland and the New Forest. Having been critically neglected, Casey returned to prominence with the July 2022 reissue of her darkly comic and poetic 1971 novel, ''The Horse of Selene''.<ref>Casey, Juanita. ''The Horse of Selene''. With an Afterword by Mary M. Burke (Dublin: Tramp, 2022). https://tramppress.com/product/the-horse-of-selene/</ref>
==Biography==
Casey was born in 1925 in England and her mother an Irish traveller, Annie Mahoney, died when she was born. Her father Jobey Smith who was of English Romany stock, left her when she was a year old and she was adopted and raised in [[Southhampton]]. She was given the name Joy Barlow. She remained in close contact with her extended family, especially an uncle.<ref name="ricorso">{{cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/c/Casey_J3/life.htm|title=Online Biography}}</ref><ref name="independent">{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juanita-casey-writer-artist-and-horse-breeder-who-lived-the-archetypal-bohemian-life-8382233.html|title=The independent obituary for Juanita Casey}}</ref><ref name="times">{{cite web|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3616959.ece|title=Obituary by The Times}}</ref><ref name="Biography">{{cite book|title=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume 5|author=Angela Bourke|publisher=NYU Press|year= 2002}}</ref><ref name="IWW">{{cite book|title=Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|author=Alexander G. Gonzalez|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2006|page=67}}</ref>


==Early life==
Casey was educated at four boarding schools but eventually left them for the circus aged only thirteen. By sixteen she was working on the land in [[Dorset]], during the Second World War, where she met and married farmer John "Crusoe" Fisher. With him she had a son William in 1947. They moved to [[Penzance]] and lived and worked on boats. Casey began selling her artwork through local studios. It was here she met the Swedish sculptor [[Sven Berlin]] whom she later married in 1953. With him she had another son, Jasper. Together they lived and worked within a growing artists colony in the [[St Ives]] area until Berlin became ostracised due to a biography he wrote and the couple moved to the New Forest. Here Casey had close ties to her travelling family and lived in caravans until moving into a home on land belonging to a local farmer.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
Juanita Casey was born in 1925 in England and adopted at birth into a wealthy Southampton-based brewing family by Gerald Haw Taunton Barlow (1878-1952) and his wife Mary (née Bischoff) and named Joy Barlow. Her true heritage has always remained in doubt. Casey was told her mother was an Irish Traveller, Annie Mahoney, but the identity of her biological father was shrouded in mystery, though he was rumoured to have been an English Romany.<ref name="ricorso">{{cite web |title=Online Biography |url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/c/Casey_J3/life.htm}}</ref><ref name="independent">{{cite web |date=4 December 2012 |title=The independent obituary for Juanita Casey |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juanita-casey-writer-artist-and-horse-breeder-who-lived-the-archetypal-bohemian-life-8382233.html |website=[[Independent.co.uk]]}}</ref><ref name="times">{{cite news |title=Obituary by The Times |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3616959.ece}}</ref><ref name="Biography">{{cite book |author=Angela Bourke |title=The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume 5 |publisher=NYU Press |year=2002}}</ref><ref name="IWW">{{cite book |author=Alexander G. Gonzalez |title=Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2006 |page=67}}</ref> In the 1980s, Casey found a birth certificate that stated that she was born Lorna at Elm Drive, [[Teddington]] to mother Bertha Louise Newman, with no recorded father. It is suspected the story Casey was told may hold some truth as Newman is a common British Romani surname.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/casey-juanita-a10338|title=Juanita Casey|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|first=Mary|last=Burkw|accessdate=21 July 2024}}</ref>


She remained in close contact with her extended family, especially an uncle, Andrew Walter Barlow, who had a farm in Herefordshire.<ref name="independent" /> Casey suspected he was her real father. A fluent Romani speaker, Barlow introduced her to the world of the circus (which overwintered on his farm), [[Steeplechase (horse racing)|steeplechasers]], horse fairs, including those in Ireland, and Gypsy vans. He also took her sailing, kindling a life-long love of [[tall ship]]s and the sail-carrying [[J Class (yacht)|J-class]] yacht.
Casey then inherited money which allowed her to become a horse breeder and buy Home Farm in Emery Down. She trained horses for the circus at this point. It was here she met the Irish groom and journalist Fergus Casey whom she later married in 1971. Her divorce came through in 1963 which was also the year Sheba, her daughter with Fergus, was born. She began a pattern of travel between Ireland and the UK at this time and began writing her first poems.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>


==Education==
Fergus was drowned in Ireland leaving Casey to raise her daughter and she moved to [[Sneem]] in County Kerry. By now she had novels and poetry published and was working as a potter. She was a regular in the [[Listowel]] Writers Week. But in 1974 she returned to the UK where she joined Roberts' Circus as Horsemaster. After this last move to [[Okehampton]], Devon, Casey didn't move around as much and it was here she died on 24 October 2012<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
Casey's education included three boarding schools, among them [https://www.lymingtonanddistricthistoricalsociety.co.uk/chapters/images/elmers-court/ Elmers Court in Lymington, Hampshire] from which she was expelled. When the family moved to Branksome Park, [[Bournemouth]], she attended art school there.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>


==Bibliography==
==First marriage==
Following the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]], Casey was working on the land in [[Cheselbourne]], [[Dorset]]. Here in 1945, aged 19, she met and married gentleman farmer John "Crusoe" Fisher. She had also become friends with the [https://www.powys-society.org Powys brothers]. She visited [[John Cowper Powys]] in Wales and went for walks with Theodore, reminiscing on his friendship with Thomas Hardy.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
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===Poetry===


A sudden decision by Fisher to sell [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5461dd29-b59b-457e-abbb-552121511377 Place Farm at Mappowder] and live on an ex-fishing boat, resulted in the purchase of a top rigged [[schooner]], The Star (aka The Looe). A series of vessels followed including the famous Brixham trawler Provident<ref>{{Cite web |title=Provident {{!}} National Historic Ships |url=https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/616/provident |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk}}</ref> which they sailed to [[Kinsale]], [[Ireland]]. In between sailings from their moorings in Fowey and Penzance, their son William was born (in Bournemouth) in 1947. Based in [[Cornwall]], Juanita, an accomplished equestrian artist, began selling her work through [[Newlyn]] art galleries as well as in London.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="ricorso"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
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* Hath the Rain a Father? (London: Phoenix Hse. 1966)


==Second marriage==
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* Horse by the River and Other Poems (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1968), 2 ills. by author
It was in nearby [[St Ives, Cornwall|St. Ives]] that she was introduced to the painter and sculptor [[Sven Berlin]]. With him she had another son, Jasper.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>


Berlin became disillusioned with the modernist movement and the influence of [[Ben Nicholson]], [[Barbara Hepworth]] and others. Following their marriage in Penzance in 1953, the family travelled to the New Forest in a Gypsy wagon. They set up camp not far from Shave Green, one of the last compounds in the New Forest. A local farmer's kindness allowed them to move off the Forest into a field and the couple continued to paint and exhibit their work; in 1956 they held an exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, in Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire (opened by [[Augustus John]] and attended by numerous Gypsy families) while in the same year Juanita exhibited her monotypes at the Berkeley Gallery in London - her 'straining, fiery horses...jumping out of their frames' wrote her friend the author [[Denys Val Baker]] in 'Britannia & Eve'magazine. Her play 'Stallion Eternity' was transmitted by the BBC on 15 November of the same year.<ref name="independent"/>
* Eternity Smith & Other Poems (Dublin: Dolmen 1985)


When Juanita came into an inheritance it allowed her to buy Home Farm in Emery Down in the New Forest, where the couple set up a zoo. Here she kept and bred [[Appaloosas]] and endeavoured to breed a zorse (a striped horse) keeping two zebras among other unusual animals.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
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===Novels===


At the same time she was supporting Berlin in his efforts to continue his work as a writer and artist, finding little time for her own creativity. Among the many friends and acquaintances who visited them in the New Forest were [[Robert Graves]] with whom she had a long correspondence, Denys Val Baker, [[Vaughan Williams]] and Augustus John as well as their neighbour John Boorman. Juanita appears in the 1961 [[Mai Zetterling]] film ''Lords of Little Egypt''<ref>[https://subsaga.com/bbc/documentaries/families/2016/lords-of-little-egypt-mai-zetterling-among-the-gypsies.html ''Lords of Little Egypt'']</ref> made about the Gypsy festival of Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer in the Camargue in which she acted as interpreter.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
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* The Horses of Selene (Dublin: Dolmen Press; London: Calder & Boyars 1971; NY: Grossman 1972; rep. 1985)


==Third marriage==
⚫
* The Circus(Dublin: Dolmen Press 1974; Nantucket, Mass: Longship Press [1974]) Dolmen stock held by [[Colin Smythe]]
Juanita, aged 38, met Irish journalist Fergus Casey (27) when the Berlins employed him as a groom in Emery Down. Leaving Berlin and the New Forest they married in Cornwall in 1963 following her divorce - their witnesses were the Scottish poet [[W S Graham]] and his wife Nessie who lived in Mevagissey. Their daughter Sheba was born the same year.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
===Plays===
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* Stallion Eternity (BBC produced play)
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* 30 Gnu Pence (The Abbey 1973)


Based in Ireland with Fergus and Sheba in the 1960s, she began writing seriously. Fergus was found drowned in 1971, leaving Juanita to raise her daughter, and she moved to [[Sneem]] in County Kerry. By now her poetry and short stories were being published, significantly by Liam Miller's [[Dolmen Press|The Dolmen Press]], while she was working in the pottery decorating pots and plates. She was a regular at the [[Listowel|Listowel Writers' Week]] .<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>
==Other sources==
In 1974 she returned to the UK where she joined Roberts' Circus as Horse Master but succumbed to a more settled lifestyle when she made her home in Okehampton, Devon, with her daughter Sheba, where she continued to write. Juanita is considered 'the first in Ireland to write haiku as we know them', and as well as poetry she produced short stories and completed her extensive autobiography Azerbaijan! She always maintained her profound interest in horses and sailing ships and her connections with the Romany people.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="times"/><ref name="Biography"/><ref name="IWW"/>


== 2022 reissue of ''The Horse of Selene''==
⚫
* Gordon Henderson, ‘An Interview with Juanita Casey’, Journal of Irish Literature (Sept. 1972), pp.41-45;
Casey returned to prominence in the summer of 2022 when Tramp Press reissued her 1971 cult classic, ''The Horse of Selene'', in an edition with an Afterword by Mary M. Burke. The ''Irish Times'' hailed the novel as 'strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic.'<ref name="irishtimes.com">{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2022/07/30/the-horse-of-selene-by-juanita-casey-strange-mystical-and-utterly-hypnotic/ | title=The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey: Strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref>


==Bibliography==
⚫
* A Grab-bag of Juanita Casey, Journal of Irish Literature, X, 2 (May 1981);

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===Poetry===
'''•''' ''Horse by the River and other poems'' (Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1968)
⚫
* ''Eternity Smith & Other Poems'' (Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1985);
* Numerous contributions to collections including:
* Our Shared Japan. Edited by Irene De Angelis & Joseph Woods. Afterword by Seamus Heaney. A collection of poems by Irish writers. (Dedalus Press 2007)
* ''The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán'': Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (English and Irish Edition) Joan McBreen, Salmon Poetry 1999

===Novels and Short Stories===
⚫
* ''Hath the Rain a Father''? (London: Phoenix House Ltd.1966)
⚫
* ''The Horse of Selene'' (Dublin:The Dolmen Press; London: Calder & Boyars 1971; NY: Grossman 1972; rep. 1985; Dublin: Tramp Press, 2022)
⚫
* ''The Circus'' (Dublin:The Dolmen Press 1974; Nantucket, Mass: Longship Press [1974])
* ''The Seagull'' (short story). Set as GCSE examination coursework in 2005 in a comparison with Thomas Hardy's ''The Withered Arm''.
* ''Azerbaijan''! (Autobiography). Limited Edition. Edited by Sonia Aarons (New Forest: Millersford Press: 2008).
* Short stories, poetry and articles reproduced in:
''Chicago Review'', ''Reader's Digest'', ''Horse & Hound'', ''Ireland of the Welcomes'' magazine, ''Irish Times'', ''Western Mail'' and in anthologies of poems and short stories.

===Collected works and contributions===
⚫
* A Grab-bag of Juanita Casey, Journal of Irish Literature, X, 2 (May 1981); Also published as Juanita Casey A Sampling. No. 3 The Proscenium Chapbooks. Proscenium Press, Newark, DE (1981)

⚫
===Plays===
⚫
* Stallion Eternity (BBC commissioned play, transmitted November 1956 )
⚫
* 30 Gnu Pence (a reading at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1973)

==Further listening==
Interview with Mary M. Burke on Juanita Casey. "Arena." RTÉ (Irish national radio). 27 July 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22126992/ | title=Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey | website=[[RTÉ.ie]] | date=27 July 2022 }}</ref>


==Further reading==
⚫
* Freda Brown Jackson, ‘Juanita Casey’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Broccoli Clark Book 1983).
* Burke, Mary M. 'Juanita Casey: A forgotten Traveller-Romany writer rediscovered." ''Culture''. RTÉ (Irish national broadcaster). 5 August 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0728/1312820-juanita-casey-a-forgotten-traveller-romany-writer-rediscovered/ | title=Juanita Casey - a forgotten Traveller-Romany writer rediscovered | website=[[RTÉ.ie]] | date=5 August 2022 }}</ref>
* Donnelly, Niamh. Review: '''The Horse of Selene'' by Juanita Casey: Strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic." ''Irish Times'', 30 July 2022.<ref name="irishtimes.com"/>
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* Henderson, Gordon. 'An Interview with Juanita Casey', ''Journal of Irish Literature'' (Sept. 1972), pp.&nbsp;41–45.
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* Jackson, Freda Brown. 'Juanita Casey', in ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'' (Detroit: Broccoli Clark, 1983).


== References ==
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Latest revision as of 23:55, 24 September 2024

Juanita Casey
BornJoy Barlow
1925
Teddington, England
Died24 October 2012
Okehampton, Devon
OccupationPoet, Writer, Artist, Potter, Horse Breeder, Horse Trainer, Zebra Trainer
NationalityBritish

Juanita Casey (10 October 1925 – 24 October 2012) was a poet, playwright, novelist and artist as well as a horse and zebra trainer and breeder. Her writing celebrates her time in Ireland and the New Forest. Having been critically neglected, Casey returned to prominence with the July 2022 reissue of her darkly comic and poetic 1971 novel, The Horse of Selene.[1]

Early life

[edit]

Juanita Casey was born in 1925 in England and adopted at birth into a wealthy Southampton-based brewing family by Gerald Haw Taunton Barlow (1878-1952) and his wife Mary (née Bischoff) and named Joy Barlow. Her true heritage has always remained in doubt. Casey was told her mother was an Irish Traveller, Annie Mahoney, but the identity of her biological father was shrouded in mystery, though he was rumoured to have been an English Romany.[2][3][4][5][6] In the 1980s, Casey found a birth certificate that stated that she was born Lorna at Elm Drive, Teddington to mother Bertha Louise Newman, with no recorded father. It is suspected the story Casey was told may hold some truth as Newman is a common British Romani surname.[7]

She remained in close contact with her extended family, especially an uncle, Andrew Walter Barlow, who had a farm in Herefordshire.[3] Casey suspected he was her real father. A fluent Romani speaker, Barlow introduced her to the world of the circus (which overwintered on his farm), steeplechasers, horse fairs, including those in Ireland, and Gypsy vans. He also took her sailing, kindling a life-long love of tall ships and the sail-carrying J-class yacht.

Education

[edit]

Casey's education included three boarding schools, among them Elmers Court in Lymington, Hampshire from which she was expelled. When the family moved to Branksome Park, Bournemouth, she attended art school there.[3][2][4][5][6]

First marriage

[edit]

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Casey was working on the land in Cheselbourne, Dorset. Here in 1945, aged 19, she met and married gentleman farmer John "Crusoe" Fisher. She had also become friends with the Powys brothers. She visited John Cowper Powys in Wales and went for walks with Theodore, reminiscing on his friendship with Thomas Hardy.[3][2][4][5][6]

A sudden decision by Fisher to sell Place Farm at Mappowder and live on an ex-fishing boat, resulted in the purchase of a top rigged schooner, The Star (aka The Looe). A series of vessels followed including the famous Brixham trawler Provident[8] which they sailed to Kinsale, Ireland. In between sailings from their moorings in Fowey and Penzance, their son William was born (in Bournemouth) in 1947. Based in Cornwall, Juanita, an accomplished equestrian artist, began selling her work through Newlyn art galleries as well as in London.[3][2][4][5][6]

Second marriage

[edit]

It was in nearby St. Ives that she was introduced to the painter and sculptor Sven Berlin. With him she had another son, Jasper.[3][4][5][6]

Berlin became disillusioned with the modernist movement and the influence of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and others. Following their marriage in Penzance in 1953, the family travelled to the New Forest in a Gypsy wagon. They set up camp not far from Shave Green, one of the last compounds in the New Forest. A local farmer's kindness allowed them to move off the Forest into a field and the couple continued to paint and exhibit their work; in 1956 they held an exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, in Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire (opened by Augustus John and attended by numerous Gypsy families) while in the same year Juanita exhibited her monotypes at the Berkeley Gallery in London - her 'straining, fiery horses...jumping out of their frames' wrote her friend the author Denys Val Baker in 'Britannia & Eve'magazine. Her play 'Stallion Eternity' was transmitted by the BBC on 15 November of the same year.[3]

When Juanita came into an inheritance it allowed her to buy Home Farm in Emery Down in the New Forest, where the couple set up a zoo. Here she kept and bred Appaloosas and endeavoured to breed a zorse (a striped horse) keeping two zebras among other unusual animals.[3][4][5][6]

At the same time she was supporting Berlin in his efforts to continue his work as a writer and artist, finding little time for her own creativity. Among the many friends and acquaintances who visited them in the New Forest were Robert Graves with whom she had a long correspondence, Denys Val Baker, Vaughan Williams and Augustus John as well as their neighbour John Boorman. Juanita appears in the 1961 Mai Zetterling film Lords of Little Egypt[9] made about the Gypsy festival of Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer in the Camargue in which she acted as interpreter.[3][4][5][6]

Third marriage

[edit]

Juanita, aged 38, met Irish journalist Fergus Casey (27) when the Berlins employed him as a groom in Emery Down. Leaving Berlin and the New Forest they married in Cornwall in 1963 following her divorce - their witnesses were the Scottish poet W S Graham and his wife Nessie who lived in Mevagissey. Their daughter Sheba was born the same year.[3][4][5][6]

Based in Ireland with Fergus and Sheba in the 1960s, she began writing seriously. Fergus was found drowned in 1971, leaving Juanita to raise her daughter, and she moved to Sneem in County Kerry. By now her poetry and short stories were being published, significantly by Liam Miller's The Dolmen Press, while she was working in the pottery decorating pots and plates. She was a regular at the Listowel Writers' Week .[3][4][5][6]

In 1974 she returned to the UK where she joined Roberts' Circus as Horse Master but succumbed to a more settled lifestyle when she made her home in Okehampton, Devon, with her daughter Sheba, where she continued to write. Juanita is considered 'the first in Ireland to write haiku as we know them', and as well as poetry she produced short stories and completed her extensive autobiography Azerbaijan! She always maintained her profound interest in horses and sailing ships and her connections with the Romany people.[3][4][5][6]

2022 reissue of The Horse of Selene

[edit]

Casey returned to prominence in the summer of 2022 when Tramp Press reissued her 1971 cult classic, The Horse of Selene, in an edition with an Afterword by Mary M. Burke. The Irish Times hailed the novel as 'strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic.'[10]

Bibliography

[edit]

Poetry

[edit]

• Horse by the River and other poems (Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1968)

  • Eternity Smith & Other Poems (Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1985);
  • Numerous contributions to collections including:
  • Our Shared Japan. Edited by Irene De Angelis & Joseph Woods. Afterword by Seamus Heaney. A collection of poems by Irish writers. (Dedalus Press 2007)
  • The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (English and Irish Edition) Joan McBreen, Salmon Poetry 1999

Novels and Short Stories

[edit]
  • Hath the Rain a Father? (London: Phoenix House Ltd.1966)
  • The Horse of Selene (Dublin:The Dolmen Press; London: Calder & Boyars 1971; NY: Grossman 1972; rep. 1985; Dublin: Tramp Press, 2022)
  • The Circus (Dublin:The Dolmen Press 1974; Nantucket, Mass: Longship Press [1974])
  • The Seagull (short story). Set as GCSE examination coursework in 2005 in a comparison with Thomas Hardy's The Withered Arm.
  • Azerbaijan! (Autobiography). Limited Edition. Edited by Sonia Aarons (New Forest: Millersford Press: 2008).
  • Short stories, poetry and articles reproduced in:

Chicago Review, Reader's Digest, Horse & Hound, Ireland of the Welcomes magazine, Irish Times, Western Mail and in anthologies of poems and short stories.

Collected works and contributions

[edit]
  • A Grab-bag of Juanita Casey, Journal of Irish Literature, X, 2 (May 1981); Also published as Juanita Casey A Sampling. No. 3 The Proscenium Chapbooks. Proscenium Press, Newark, DE (1981)

Plays

[edit]
  • Stallion Eternity (BBC commissioned play, transmitted November 1956 )
  • 30 Gnu Pence (a reading at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1973)

Further listening

[edit]

Interview with Mary M. Burke on Juanita Casey. "Arena." RTÉ (Irish national radio). 27 July 2022.[11]

Further reading

[edit]
  • Burke, Mary M. 'Juanita Casey: A forgotten Traveller-Romany writer rediscovered." Culture. RTÉ (Irish national broadcaster). 5 August 2022.[12]
  • Donnelly, Niamh. Review: 'The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey: Strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic." Irish Times, 30 July 2022.[10]
  • Henderson, Gordon. 'An Interview with Juanita Casey', Journal of Irish Literature (Sept. 1972), pp. 41–45.
  • Jackson, Freda Brown. 'Juanita Casey', in Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Broccoli Clark, 1983).

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Casey, Juanita. The Horse of Selene. With an Afterword by Mary M. Burke (Dublin: Tramp, 2022). https://tramppress.com/product/the-horse-of-selene/
  2. ^ a b c d "Online Biography".
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "The independent obituary for Juanita Casey". Independent.co.uk. 4 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Obituary by The Times".
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Angela Bourke (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume 5. NYU Press.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Alexander G. Gonzalez (2006). Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 67.
  7. ^ Burkw, Mary. "Juanita Casey". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Provident | National Historic Ships". www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  9. ^ Lords of Little Egypt
  10. ^ a b "The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey: Strange, mystical and utterly hypnotic". The Irish Times.
  11. ^ "Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey". RTÉ.ie. 27 July 2022.
  12. ^ "Juanita Casey - a forgotten Traveller-Romany writer rediscovered". RTÉ.ie. 5 August 2022.
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