GEORGE Tom O'Brien Short Stories George cycles around London selling old prints. At night he hears voices, urging him to paint J M W Turner pictures - which he later attempts to sell as genuine Turners.
WORKING FOR THE SUBBY Tom O'Brien Fiction Johnjo is forced to go on the run from his Irish hill-farm home at an early age, and washes up in Lincolnshire in war-time England, working on farms and being treated worse than the prisoners-of war. We find him working in London, not having been ...
GEORGE Tom O'Brien Short Stories George cycles around London selling old prints. At night he hears voices, urging him to paint J M W Turner pictures - which he later attempts to sell as genuine Turners.
BRENDAN BEHAN STAND UP... Tom O'Brien Short Stories Brendan Behan in a bar somewher - possibly the Chelsea Hotel in New York - reminiscing about his life
THE IRISH ROVERS Tom O'Brien Music The extraordinary love story between Irish musician Liam Clancy and Diane Guggenheim, America’s richest heiress and his friendship with Bob Dylan. The Clancy Bros. and Tommy Makem were bigger in the USA in 1963 than the Beatles. Bob Dylan to this...
THE MISSING POSTMAN Tom O'Brien Fiction The Missing Postman is a journey into the world of Zeb and Zoe and their quest to avenge their (separate) unhappy childhoods. They appear to have created an imaginary world, a world where they become 'Bonnie and Clyde'. They have even aped their h...
POEMS FROM THE BOREEN Tom O'Brien Poetry Ballyhussa boreen was potholed in winter and overgrown in summer, but it was home - and it possessed my young soul and my growing body.. I grew up there - and bits of me stayed there. In the hedges and furze bushes, in the groves and ploughed fiel...
THE SHINY RED HONDA Tom O'Brien Autobiographies The Shiny Red Honda is about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950/60's, a time of great rural upheaval and change. The creamery, the horse and cart, threshing machines, crossroad dancing, travelling shows...all their days were numbered. Going ...
GILMARTIN:The Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics Tom O'Brien Fiction When Bertie Ahern resigned on May 6th 2008 after 11 years as Irish Taoiseach and more than thirty years all told in the corridors of power, it was as a direct result of the fall-out that occurred from the treatment meted out to Irish businessman,...
'I never met Bob Dylan but I sang with Pecker Dunne' Christy Moore Tom O'Brien Fiction A play with music about the travelling musicians of Ireland, mostly concentrating on Pecker Dunne and Margaret Barry. They were both from travelling families, Tinkers, and were marginalised by Irish society. Looked down on, indeed persecuted for t...
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