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The
Same Age as the State
Máire Cruise O'Brien
History of Ireland and the
Irish Diaspora
"Like all good books, it becomes
an instant friend and one is impatient to return to its pages."—The Irish Times
In this invaluable autobiography, Irish
writer and diplomat Máire Cruise O'Brien explores the
republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she
was growing up, the fallout of the Irish Civil War, and life
in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago.
Cruise O'Brien spent two years studying in Paris after World
War II, where she mixed in literary circles with Irish playwright
Samuel Beckett, American bookseller and literary patron Sylvia
Beach, and others. She became the first Irish woman to serve
as a diplomat, a role that took her to Spain in the time of Franco,
the United Nations General Assembly, and the Council of Europe
in Strasbourg. After her marriage to Conor Cruise O'Brien, she
accompanied him to many countries, including wartime Congo, where
Conor was U.N. representative; Ghana, where he was vice chancellor
of the new university under Kwame Nkrumah; and the United States,
when he held the Schweitzer chair at New York University.
This is the autobiography of a unique woman, filled with famous
people, revolutionaries, writers, statesmen, and many others,
offering a compelling insight into a time of great upheaval in
Ireland, Europe, and Africa.
Máire Cruise O'Brien, an established Irish language author, has published
many highly acclaimed volumes of verse, articles, short stories,
and translations.
Copublished with O'Brien Press, Dublin
For more information contact our publicity
manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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February 2005 LC: 2004061180 DA
352 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN 0-299-21030-8 Cloth $35.00 t
Wisconsin edition
for sale only in the U.S., its territories and dependencies,
Canada, and the Philippines
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