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Broken Landscapes - Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57 (Hardcover)
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Broken Landscapes - Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57 (Hardcover)
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Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of
the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he
survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to
the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera's behalf. Broken
Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys, through Europe and the
Americas, where O'Malley moved in wide social circles that included
Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Hart Crane and Jack B. Yeats. Back in
Mayo he took up farming. In 1935 he married Helen Hooker, an
American heiress, with whom he had three children, Cathal, Etain
and Cormac, before a bitter separation. His literary reputation was
established with a magnificent memoir, On Another Man's Wound
(1936). In later years he was close to John Ford, and worked on The
Quiet Man (1952). This vibrant new collection of letters, diaries
and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers.
It enriches the history of Ireland's troubled independence with
reflections on loss and reconciliation. It links the old world to
the new - O'Malley perched on the edge of the Atlantic, a folklore
collector, art critic and radio broadcaster; autodidact, modernist
and intellectual. It conducts a unique conversation with the past.
In Broken Landscapes, we travel with O'Malley through Italy, the
American Southwest, Mexico and points inbetween. In Taos, he
mingled wiht the artistic set around D. H. Lawrence. In Ireland, he
drank with Patrick Kavanagh, Liam O'Flaherty and Louis MacNiece.
The young painter Louis le Brocquy was his guest on his farm in
Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. These places and people remained with
O'Malley in his private writing, assembled for the first time from
family and institutional archives. Reading these letters, dairies
and fragments is to see Ireland in the tumultuous world of the
twentieth century, as if for the first time, allowing us to view
the intellectual foundations of the State through the eyes of its
leading chronicler.
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