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U.S. $30.00 “M}' mother then retired to her room, roaring crying, and remained there for the rest of that terrible afternoon. During my those hours, grief^stricken mother seemed entirely to have my forgotten oivn existence. It was as if I had lost both parents, not just one. remember “I sitting in the dining-room contemplating the long, shiny mahogany table, and feeling that everything that made worth living was gone life forever. That afternoon was the my worst part of whole life to date.” LiORAllV —Conor Cruise O’Brien’s moving Square account of his father’s death on PUBUC Christmas Day, 1927, shortly Copley after his tenth birthday. BOSTON In this searching memoir, Conor Cruise O’Brien traces the forces that have shaped the past eighty years of his own life with the clarity, power, passion, and tender wit that have made him a scholar, writer, and intellectual of international reputation. 1 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https://archive.org/details/memoirnnylifethennOOobri 4 Kate MEMOIR MY AND THEMES LIFE -4 If MEMOIR MY AND THEMES LIFE CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN |Eper Square Press 1 © Copyright 1998 by Conor Cruise O’Brien First Cooper Square Press edition 2000 This Cooper Square Press edition ofMemoir; My Life and Themes is an unabridged republication ofthe edition first published in Dublin in 1998. It is reprinted by arrangement with the author. Photograph ofKate Cruise O’Brien by Ann Egan Cover photography by Brigid Tieman Cover design by Artmark All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. Published by Cooper Square Press, An Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 91 New York, New York 10011 Distributed by National Book Network Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 1917- — Memoir . my life and themes / Conor Cruise O’Brien. L' Cooper Square Press ed. cm. p. Originally published Dublin Poolbeg, 1998. ; : Includes index. ISBN 0-8154-1064-6 (cloth alk. paper) : 1. O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 1917- 2. Authors, Irish—20**' century—Biography. — — — — 3. Diplomats Ireland Biography. 4. Scholars Ireland Biography. I. Title. PR6065.B67 Z47 2000 808’.0092—dc21 00-021774 'ey The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of — American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica.
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