"Man of letters, diplomat, scholar " the only contemporary writer who can be compared to George Orwell and André Malraux" " that is how the Atlantic Monthly described Conor Cruise O'Brien on its January 1994 cover. If anything, that description underestimates the range of talents and activities of the person who has been widely referred to as "the greatest living Irishman."
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 828.914
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-ie---
- ISBN
- 9780773565111
- LCCN
- PR6065.B67
- LCCN Item number
- Z53 1994 v. 2eb
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- 1 electronic text (371 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00212027 (OCoLC)191819194 (CaOOCEL)407492
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- INTRODUCTION 10
- SELECTIONS 16
- 1 "Poisson d'Avril"/"Poison d'Autrui" 17
- 2 "Christine" 19
- 3 Profile: Mr. Sean MacBride, T.D. 21
- 4 The Magic of Mauriac 26
- 5 A Sunday in East Berlin 35
- 6 Poetry, Inspiration and Criticism 38
- 7 The Loved One 44
- 8 Carey Bloom 46
- 9 Serpents 58
- 10 Orwell Looks at the World 62
- 11 My Case 67
- 12 White Gods and Black Americans 74
- 13 Neo-Colonialism 80
- 14 Yeats and Fascism: What Rough Beast 86
- 15 A Long Engagement 100
- 16 The Neurosis of Colonialism 105
- 17 Nkrumah—The Man I Knew 110
- 18 The Embers of Easter 113
- 19 The Homer Watt Lecture 127
- 20 Encounter Retorts 135
- 21 Burke, Marx, and History 138
- 22 Two-Faced Cathleen 146
- 23 In Quest of Uncle Tom 152
- 24 Inside Biafra 157
- 25 Student Unrest 162
- 26 Biafra Revisited 166
- 27 Camus, Algeria, and "The Fall" 185
- 28 Holy War 196
- 29 America First or Varieties of Americocentrism 212
- 30 The Gentle Nietzscheans 221
- 31 Mr. Alec Foster: An Appreciation 232
- 32 Now They Talk of Over-Information 235
- 33 Hands Off 239
- 34 Dead Cat Calwell Meets Arctic Dev 247
- 35 Fwowing Up with Dorothy Parker 251
- 36 African Self-Righteousness Is as Tiresome as European 255
- 37 Kangaroo Tickets and Black Politics 259
- 38 Parnell and His Party, Reconsidered 263
- 39 What Rough Beast? 266
- 40 Blueshirts and Quislings 269
- 41 The Four Horsemen 272
- 42 The Artist as Pompous Prig 282
- 43 A Step to Watch 285
- 44 Death in the Afternoon 289
- 45 Islam's Example 292
- 46 UN Theater 295
- 47 An Exalted Nationalism 300
- 48 A Vindication of Edmund Burke 304
- 49 Pride in the Language 319
- 50 Your Lordships: An Open Letter to the Irish Catholic Hierarchy 322
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 326
- INDEX 368
- A 368
- B 368
- C 368
- D 369
- E 369
- F 369
- G 369
- H 369
- I 369
- J 369
- K 369
- L 370
- M 370
- N 370
- O 370
- P 370
- R 370
- S 370
- T 371
- U 371
- V 371
- W 371
- Y 371
- Z 371
