The Bell has often been described as the most influential Irish literary magazine of the mid-twentieth century. It was published monthly from 1940 to 1954, beginning in what is known in Ireland as the “Emergency” or World War II era. The list of significant authors whose work was published in its pages includes Sean O’Faoláin, Frank O’Connor, Peadar O’Donnell, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, Liam O’Flaherty, Louis MacNeice, John Montague, Elizabeth Bowen, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, John Hewitt, Mary Lavin, Maura Laverty, and Denis Johnston, among others. Side by side with these well-known authors, The Bell published the work of emerging writers as well as writing by members of the public. The magazine’s editors welcomed the contributions of anyone in Ireland with a story to tell. The Bell Index includes all of the editorials, essays, short stories, poems, articles, and reviews published in The Bell. To search the index, enter a keyword, author, title, genre, or date range. See the “Search Guide for The Bell Index” for a list of keywords and genres.

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Submissions from 1954

 

More of Jane

 

Notes on Contributors

 

The Legend of the Toad-Buffalo

 

Dylan Thomas: A Religious Poet, Richard Austin

 

The Awakening, Richard Austin

 

Strong and Perfect Christians, Maeve Barrington

 

Millstones, Mary Beckett

 

The Balancing of the Clouds, Mary Beckett

 

Montparnasse-Bienvenue, Patrick Brady

 

The Idler, Neville Braybrooke

 

Lough Derg, Catherine Brian

 

The Boy in the End Bed, Catherine Brian

 

A Portrait of a Minority, Hubert Butler

 

I … I Suppose So: A consideration of Donat O'Donnell's Maria Cross, Hubert Butler

 

Letters to the Editor [response to Owen Quinn], Hubert Butler

 

Saints, Scholars and Civil Servants, Hubert Butler

 

The Film and the Novel, Alberto Cavalcanti

 

Letters to the Editor (response to James Plunkett), Erskine Childers

 

Displaced Persons, Maurice C. Cole

 

Purposeful Journey, Maurice C. Cole

 

Abstraction and Humanism, Anthony Cronin

 

A Province Once Again, Anthony Cronin

 

Odd Number, Anthony Cronin

 

Poetry and Belief, Anthony Cronin

 

Poetry and Living, Anthony Cronin

 

Preface, Anthony Cronin

 

Preface, Anthony Cronin

 

The Lover, Anthony Cronin

 

The Wicked Earl, Anthony Cronin

 

Thirty Years Ago, Anthony Cronin

 

This Time, This Place, Anthony Cronin

 

Writing, Anthony Cronin

 

Piranesi's Vues de Pesto, Donald Davie

 

Professor Heller and the Boots, Donald Davie

 

Pushkin: A Didactic Poem, Donald Davie

 

The Musical World of Dvorak, Jose De Benito

 

The Mansion Purples, Seamus de Faoite

 

Tomos Twice, W.L. Edwards

 

The Open Window: A Monthly Perambulation Conducted by Gulliver, Michael Farrell

 

The Open Window: A Perambulation Conducted by Gulliver, Michael Farrell

 

Out of the Earth, Maurice Fitzpatrick

 

Henri Matisse, Martin Gerard

 

The Open Window: A Monthly Perambulation Conducted by Gulliver, Gulliver

 

The Open Window: A Perambulation Conducted by Gulliver, Gulliver

 

French Film, William F. Harpur

 

Life Arboreal, Pearse Hutchinson

 

Theatre, Pearse Hutchinson

 

Wanted - An Ulster Ibsen, Denis Ireland

 

The Byzantine Poems of Yeats, Valentin Iremonger

 

A Grave in Zurich, Maurice Irvine

 

Some Faces in the Crowd, J.D.

 

Kate O'Brien: A Note on Her Themes, John Jordan

 

Encounter with a Young Man, Frigyes Karinthy

 

Emigration: A Letter, John Kavanagh

 

Cyrano de Bergerac, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Dublin, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Intimate Parnassus, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Irish Stew, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Narcissus and the Women, Patrick Kavanagh

 

On Reading a Book on Common Wild Flowers, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Return in Harvest, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Scenes from a Literary Novel, Patrick Kavanagh

 

The Rowley Mile, Patrick Kavanagh

 

Palm Wine Country, Maurice Kennedy

 

Some New Books, Maurice Kennedy

 

The Rock, Benedict Kiely

 

All the King's Men, Thomas Kinsella

 

Europe, Europe, Thomas Kinsella

 

The Travelling Companion, Thomas Kinsella

 

What Is Cancer?, Francois Le Lionnais

 

A Reply to P.K., Caitlin MacMilcho

 

Mullally's 'Reverie', Brinsley MacNamara

 

On with the Dance, J.F. Manning

 

Letters to the Editor: The Minister and the Musicians, Dorothy Mayer

 

The Composer and Society, Frederick May

 

The Late Sir Arnold Bax, Frederick May

 

Climacteric, M.B.I.

 

Handprinted in Dublin, M.B.I.

 

A Grain to Grow, Ewart Milne

 

The Haunting of Thurloe, Ewart Milne

 

There Lived a Man, Ewart Milne

 

When All Is Said, Ewart Milne

 

Ernest Hemingway, M.K.

 

Pietro's Pilgrimage, M.K.

 

Eat Well for Once, Zsigmond Moricz

 

The Sheep Trough, Zsigmond Moricz

 

Tragedy, Zsigmond Moricz

 

Mind You, I've Said Nothing!, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

Theatre, Val Mulkerns

 

The Blindness of Doctor Grey, Val Mulkerns

 

The Spanish Temper, Val Mulkerns

 

Two in One, Myles [Flann O'Brien] na gCopaleen

 

Sceal na Scannan, Sean O Briain

 

Two in One, Flann [writing as Myles na gCopaleen] O'Brien

 

A Pilgrim Has Been Among Us, Peadar O'Donnell