Conor Cruise O'Brien; violent notions.

9780716528654

Conor Cruise O'Brien; violent notions.

Whelan, Diarmuid.

Irish Academic Press

2009

240 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

PR6065

Whelan (international politics, U. College Cork), aided substantially by access to his subject's private papers, provides a comprehensive view of the Irish intellectual's life, mind, writings, the strong contradictions in his upbringing, his involvement in politics, and those individuals who influenced him most. O'Brien (1917-2008) lived a contentious, fully-engaged life and the author focuses on the conflicting nature of his intellectual inheritance as it applies, for instance, to the importance of religion in his political thinking and his aversion to nationalism. In addition to drawing from O'Brien's private papers, the authors relies on correspondence between his subject and his family, as well as between other literary and political notables. Distributed in the US by ISBS.

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