Life
[?-?; Gretta Curran Browne]; b. Dublin: ed. Goldenbridge Orphanage; actress, joined Equity, 1974; contrib. prize-winning story to Ireland’s Own; issued Tread Softly on My Dreams (Headline 1990), a novel based on life of Robert Emmet; Fire on the Hill (1991); and Ghosts in Sunlight (1999); also Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999), based on film of that title.
Works
Tread Softly on My Dreams: Robert Emmett’s Story (London: Headline 1990: rep. Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1998), 625pp.; Fire on the Hill: An Irish Epic of Love and War (London: Headline 1991, rep. Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 637pp.; Ghosts in Sunlight (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 437pp.
Commentary
See interview, Books Ireland (Summer 1998), pp.153-54.
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