Naming the Names | Critical Overview
In general, Devlin is better known as a writer of plays than of short stories, and The Way-Paver, the volume in which ‘‘Naming the Names’’ appeared, did not attract much critical attention. However, ‘‘Naming the Names’’ became Devlin’s best-known story when she adapted it as a play for BBC television in 1987. Since then, assessments of it have cropped up in a number of books and articles about the work of contemporary Irish writers. In her book The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, for example, Edna Longley noted that the story focuses...
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