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Trespassers Paperback – April 30, 2013

by Julia O'Faolain (Author)
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Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil 'In those days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting fat or bored.'Her father was Director of Publicity for the IRA during that savage conflict. He made bombs. A brilliant writer, his first book of stories was banned and he was summoned by his old IRA comrades to be court-martialled for writing it. He became one of Ireland's most celebrated writers and a radical dissident during the 1940s, challenging Church and State for their betrayal of the people's needs. His affairs with Elizabeth Bowen and many other women were betrayals of a more intimate kind. This was the backdrop to Julia O'Faolain's childhood.Her life is filled with great Frank O'Connor, Paul Henry, Garret Fitzgerald, Hubert Butler, Patrick Kavanagh and Richard Ellman; and later, in their villas outside Florence, Harold Acton and Violet Trefusis, along with a cast of prim communists and raffish reactionary aristocrats.This is a book about being an outsider looking in, a trespasser in Ireland and in other countries - France, Italy in the late 1950s, the West Coast during the turbulent sixties - and also in other lives, the permanent temptation of the creative writer.
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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Faber & Faber
  4. Publication date
    April 30, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    5.31 x 0.79 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9780571294923
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571294923
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0571294928
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (April 30, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780571294923
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571294923
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.79 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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The Alf
5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite good taste
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2013
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Fascinating look into the world of a lady who writes with the exquisite good taste of her father. The recollections of her childhood are delightful.
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Vincent Doherty
4.0 out of 5 stars Outline of a literary life
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2013
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A useful footnote to the history of literary Ireland during certain decades of the Twentieth Century. As much about those around her as about the author herself.
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Paul MacCarthy
1.0 out of 5 stars boring self indulgent nonsense AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2013
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After the good reviews I read this book was a great disappointment. I cannot think of one good thing to say about it.

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