Conor Cruise O Brien: 12 books
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures...
First in Peace
How George Washington Set the Course for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Just before he died after a long and distinguished international career as a politician, commentator, and author, Conor Cruise O'Brien completed a study of George Washington's presidency. Cruise O'Brien has been described as a man who so persistently asks the right questions” (The Economist),...
Passion and Cunning
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.
'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit....
by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative reading of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and author of L'Étranger and La Peste, was originally published in 1970.
'O'Brien's Camus is brilliant. While having been himself profoundly moved by Camus's work, he asks why students have so often misinterpreted him.'...
Maria Cross
Imaginative Patterns in a Group of Catholic Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant.) In...
by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The lectures were inspired by O'Brien's experience of holding the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at New York...
by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise O'Brien's searching analysis of contemporary Irish nationalism: part-memoir, part-history, part-polemic.
'If The Great Melody (1992) is O'Brien's major academic work, States of Ireland is the one...
To Katanga and Back
A UN Case History
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Britain.
June 1961: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien arrives in Katanga as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld,...
On the Eve of the Millenium
The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
"All my life," writes Conor Cruise O'Brien, "I have been fascinated and puzzled by nationalism and religion; by the interaction of the two forces, sometimes in unison, sometimes antagonistic." In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, O'Brien examines how throughout the world today these age-old...
Herod
Reflections on Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien collects a number of essays alongside three short plays that dramatise political arguments through the infamous figure of the Roman king of Judaea for whom the collection is named.
'A great book. In it,...
Writers and Politics
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965.
'I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library...
Skeff
A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916; his mother, Hanna, a prominent suffragette), and...