Life
1944- ; b. Limerick; RTE journalist and presenter of long-running Morning Ireland; Sunday Tribune columnist; one novel, In Guilt and Glory (Hutchinson 1979), also Penguin rpts. DIW
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Notes
In Guilt and Glory (1979) is a roman à clef; An Irish journalist, touring an America film crew through Ireland, is exposed to his own hypocrisy by a black American journalist lady; Irish politics and literary society are viewed askance; Ireland must face up to maturity in an international, secular, not-inspirational world; the hero, unsatisfactorily married, conducts his seductions from quotations from a pocket selection of Yeats.
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