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Brian Keenan CBE was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a working-class household. He left Orangefield School early and started working as a heating engineer. However, he continued his curiosity in literature by attending evening courses and in 1970 gained a spot on the University of Ulster in Coleraine.
30 de sept. de 2000 · In his cell, held hostage in Beirut, Brian Keenan had an imaginary companion: a blind minstrel, hero of 17th-century Ireland, who appeared to him in a dream. Now, he tells Suzie Mackenzie, he has ...
Brooklyn-based musician Brian Keenan creates songs that explore the dichotomy of emotions within each of us, through vivid vignettes and dreamlike wanderings. From the character studies of Almost, where each protagonist finds themselves facing their own demons, to the real experiences depicted in Look Around – Keenan finds himself exploring ...
Summary. While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also ...
31 de jul. de 2021 · John McCarthy bonded with his fellow prisoner Brian Keenan while they were both jailed in Beirut, Lebanon. They soon realised their kidnappers would go on to imprison them for a long time.
BRIAN KEENAN, one of the IRA’s foremost strategists over three decades of conflict passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 21 May, following a long battle with cancer. On behalf of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams extended his sincerest condolences to Brian’s wife Chrissie, his sons and daughters, Bernadette, Annemarie, Chrissie, Frankie ...
1 de ago. de 1994 · The author of "An Evil Cradling", Brian Keenan, was taken prisoner a couple of years later, in 1986, and in this work he gives a gruelling account of his harsh and lonely imprisonment, enlightened mainly by vitally important snatches of human contact and interaction, largely with John McCarthy, a British journalist also held prisoner at the ...
