Leaving Ireland
Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
Hello, and welcome/fáilte! This week’s post is about an Irish-Canadian writer whose books I have loved for many years. Back in the late 1970s, in the war-torn north of Ireland, a young English Literature teacher told her class of recalcitrant teenagers (including me) that if they wanted to read good writing, they should get hold of …