By Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor, at twenty-three, comes out of the internment camp the place he were imprisoned as an Irish innovative, and plunges into the burgeoning intellectual-political ferment of Dublin within the Twenties. during this ebook, he re-creates his years as a tender author, delivering as he does so a portrait of an period.

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Bill, with his deep husky voice, sounded like a cow that was being driven to the knacker's. His mother scolded and hounded him out, and then watched from the front door to make sure he did not bolt down some lane to the quays. I followed to see the fun, but it wasn't very funny. The Redemptorist had one of those thick pulpit voices that bellowed till it bounced and then dropped to an awed whisper. He described to us what he obviously thought was how Voltaire died, knowing he was damned, and screaming, screaming for the priest who never came.

It was a house of character, and very pleasant on those winter evenings when the rain lashed the window and you heard the roar of shingle from beyond the Murrough, the curious bar of land that divided river from sea. Geoffrey Phibbs, my boss, was tall and thin and dark, with a long lock of black hair that fell over one eye, a stiff, abrupt manner, a curt high-pitched voice and a rather insolent air. There was something about him that was vaguely satanic, and he flew into hysterical rages about trifles.

It was like sitting in the middle of Grand Central Station. Visitors to Dublin - Americans, Japanese and Chinese - were always dropping in, as well as a gang of adoring old ladies whom I called 'The Holy Women'. He lectured to them all, telling American agriculturists how to organize cooperatives and Indians how to understand Gandhi, and suggesting new themes to poets and story-tellers. He talked in set patterns and phrases which had endured for years, some indeed of which could be traced back to his boyhood.

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