The Sea Call. A Play in One Act. Dublin: Talbot Press, [1920]. First Edition. Pp 52. Ex library copy, green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. A good copy.

Forward by T.C. Murray with a list of ‘Members & Associates of the Cork Twenty Club, 1916.’

This play was selected by the Club in 1916 in fulfilment of the Club’s scheme of “publishing annually such a work of a Cork writer as may be judged worthy of recognition.”

John Bernard McCarthy (1888-1979) author and playwright, was born in the seaside village of Crosshaven, Co. Cork, his father was a merchant seaman,