All of These People: A Memoir
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Fergal Keane. All of These People: A Memoir
All of these people. A Memoir. Fergal Keane
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE Echoes
CHAPTER TWO Homeland
CHAPTER THREE The Kingdom
CHAPTER FOUR Tippler
CHAPTER FIVE Shelter
CHAPTER SIX ‘Pres’ Boy
CHAPTER SEVEN The junior
CHAPTER EIGHT Local Lessons
CHAPTER NINE Short Takes
CHAPTER TEN Into Africa
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Land That Happened Inside Us
CHAPTER TWELVE Cute Hoors
CHAPTER THIRTEEN North
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Marching Seasons
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Visitor
CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Journey Back
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Beloved Country
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN People Are People
CHAPTER NINETEEN Limits
CHAPTER TWENTY Valentina
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Witness
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Consequences
P.S
From Our Own Correspondent
LIFE at a Glance. BORN
EDUCATED
CAREER
FAMILY
LIVES
Top Ten Favourite Books
A Writer’s Life
In the Bone Shop of the Heart: Writing All of These People
Have You Read?
If You Loved This, You Might Like…
EPILOGUE A Last Battle
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For My Parents
Title Page
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Blaney was vindictive. My father lost his post as an actor and was sent to work as a clerical officer in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs. He didn’t last long and left to work as a freelance actor in Britain. Years later my father told me what he had said to Blaney. Drink was definitely involved but I think my father would have said what he had in any case. He told the minister that his only vision of culture was his ‘arse in a duckpond in County Donegal’. Keeping with the marshy metaphors he said that as a minister Blaney was as much use as ‘a lighthouse in the Bog of Allen’.
There was uproar. My father told me it was a price well worth paying. His verdict, nearly thirty years later, was: ‘That ignorant gobshite! What would he know about culture?’
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