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Trespassers: A Memoir Kindle Edition

by Julia O'Faolain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: '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 characters: 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
    262 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Faber & Faber
  5. Publication date
    March 11, 2013
  6. File size
    1688 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00APDACJG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (March 11, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 11, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1688 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
  • 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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