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While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a persona; debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark.Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and throught the recollections of those closest to him, TURLOUGH powerfull brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and opression, Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a her to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty- a blind man afraid of the dark.

Author Biography

Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950. An Evil Cradling, his account of being held hostage for four and a half years was published in 1992.
Release date NZ
August 2nd, 2001
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Vintage
Pages
352
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
1x1x1
ISBN-13
9780099474319
Product ID
1659798

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