About Bernard Duffy
Lived 1882 – 1952 (aged 69–70). Bernard Duffy was a writer.
Bernard Joseph Duffy (19 June 1882 – 31 March 1952) was an Irish barrister, novelist and playwright.
Duffy was born in Carrickmacross to James Joseph Duffy and Mary Anne McEntagart. He was educated at Viscount Weymouth Grammar School and obtained his M.A. from Trinity College Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar in 1907 and worked as a barrister for eight years. Duffy stated that the mind has an independent existence from the brain and interacts with it through the medium of a third substance.
Selected publications
Novels
Oriel (1918) The Rocky Road (1929)
Non-fiction Food for Thought: A Treatise on Memory, Dreams and Hallucinations (1944)
Plays
The Coiner (1915) Fraternity (1916) Oriel (1918) The Old Lady (1916) The Spell (1924) Cupboard Love (1931)
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Who was Bernard Duffy?
- (1882 - 1952)
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Bernard Duffy was born in 1882.
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Bernard Duffy died in 1952.
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Bernard Duffy was a writer.
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