(1945), the co-protagonist Laura (Celia Johnson) says she has reserved "the new Kate O'Brien" at her local Boots library, which prepares the audience for the moral dilemmas that the character is about to face. This offers a good example of how popular Kate O'Brien was in the 1940s, before falling into obscurity for decades, only to be 'rediscovered' as a key writer in the 1980s. Fiction Without My Cloak (1931) – (winner of the James Tait Black Prize and Hawthornden Prize)) The Ante-Room (1934) Mary Lavelle (1936) (adapted as the 1998 film Talk of Angels) Pray for the Wanderer (1938) The Land of Spices (1941) The Last of Summer (1943) That Lady (1946) (later a 1949 Broadway show and a 1955 movie) The Flower of May (1953) - (winner of the Book of the Year award, by the Women Writers Association in Ireland) As Music and Splendour (1958) Constancy (two chapters of an unfinished novel were published in 1972) Plays Distinguished Villa: A Play in Three Acts (1926) Gloria Gish (play, n.d., archive of the National Library of Ireland) The Anteroom (adaptation of her novel) That Lady: A Romantic Drama (adaptation of her novel, 1949) Film scripts Mary Magdalen (n.d., one version at the archive of the National Library of Ireland) A Broken Song (n.d., Kate O'Brien Papers at University of Limerick) Life writing Teresa of Avila (biography, 1951) Presentation Parlour (biography, 1963) English Diaries and Journals (literary criticism, 1943) Kate O'Brien: Self-Portrait (documentary for RTÉ television, broadcast 28 March 1962; script by Kate O'Brien) Travel writing Farewell Spain (political travelogue, 1937) Dublin and Cork (photographic book with text by O'Brien, 1961) My Ireland (travelogue, 1962) Journalism Long Distance (column for The Irish Times newspaper, 1967–71) book reviews (see E.Walshe's Ordinary People Dancing for Listings) Critical studies on O'Brien John Jordan (editor): Special issue on Kate O'Brien, Stony Thursday Book, vol. 7, 1981 Lorna Reynolds: Kate O'Brien: A Literary Portrait (1987) John Logan (editor): With Warmest Love: Lectures for Kate O'Brien 1984–93. (1994) Adele M. Dalsimer: Kate O'Brien: A Critical Study (1990) Éibhear Walshe (editor): Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O'Brien (1993) Éibhear Walshe: Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life (2006) Mary Coll (editor): Faithful Companions: Collected Essays Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Kate O'Brien Weekend. (2009) Aintzane L. Mentxaka: Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity (2011) Michael G. Cronin: Impure Thoughts: sexuality, Catholicism and literature in twentieth-century