James Patrick Donleavy (1926 - 2017)

Born 23 Apr 1926 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

Died 11 Sep 2017 at age 91 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

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Biography

James Donleavy is Notable.

J. P. Donleavy was an Irish-American novelist and playwright.

James Patrick Donleavy, "Mike" to his friends, was born in Woodlawn, New York City, in 1926, the son of Irish immigrants. His father had studied for the priesthood and on arriving in the US, as Donleavy puts it, "didn't have a pot to piss in". His mother was taken to New York by "a very rich Australian uncle". When Donleavy flew across the Atlantic to study sciences at Trinity College, Dublin, at the end of the second world war, his mother was able to provide an allowance so he could live in style with rooms and "a white-coated servant who would serve tea in the afternoons and Madeira". He moved to London in the early 1950s, then to the Isle of Man, where his first wife's family lived, but later returned to Ireland to enjoy the tax regulations advantageous to writers and artists.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Donleavy
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X76H-842 : accessed 11 October 2017), James P Dunleavy in household of Patrick Dunleavy, Bronx (Districts 251-500), Bronx, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 492, sheet 6A, line 33, family 95, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1482; FHL microfilm 2,341,217.
• "New York, New York City Marriage Licenses Index, 1950-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLS5-QVT8 : 19 June 2017), James Donleavy and Mary Price, 1970, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States; from Reclaim the Records, The NYC Marriage Index (http://www.nycmarriageindex.com : 2016); citing New York City Clerk's Office.