Reading Ireland Month Week 2 Round-Up!
Fergus by Brian Moore for #brianmoore100
No 429 The Barracks by John McGahern #readingirelandmonth21
I read John McGahern’s Amongst Women back in 2019 and deemed it ‘a compelling masterpiece’. That The Barracks is a masterpiece as well, suggests that McGahern is one of the best writers that Ireland has ever produced. When McGahern was 10 years old, his mother died from breast cancer and he and his siblings moved…
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No 430 Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood #readingirelandmonth21
Caroline Blackwood is probably not best known for her writing. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling ‘muse’ courtesy of her high-profile marriages first to the artist Lucian Freud, then to the composer Israel Citkowitz and finally to the poet Robert Lowell. Born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family from Ulster, she was presented as a debutante…
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