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Review article: The historian as writer or critic? Conor Cruise O’Brien and his biographers*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W.J. McCormack
W.J. McCormack*
Affiliation:
Department of English, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 117 , May 1996 , pp. 111 - 119
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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1996

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Footnotes

*

Conor: a biography of Conor Cruise O’brien. By Donald Harman Akenson. 2 vols. Vol. i: Narrative, pp xvi, 600; vol. ii: Anthology, pp vii, 356. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 1994. IR£25 each.

To laugh or to weep: a biography of Conor Cruise O’brien. By Anthony J. Jordan. Pp 253. Dublin: Blackwater Press. 1994. IR£8.99.

References

1 Akenson Conor, 142.

2 Ibid., p. xiv.

3 Ibid., p. 94.

4 Ibid., p.210.

5 Ibid., p. 463; see O’Brien, Conor Cruise, The siege: the saga of Israel and Zionism (London, 1986).Google Scholar

6 Akenson Conor, i, 487; see O’Brien, Conor Cruise, The great melody: a thematic biography and commented anthology of Edmund Burke (London, 1992), p. 15 Google Scholar.

7 Akenson, Conor, i, 353, 364.

8 Ibid., p. 131

9 For the bibliography see ibid., ii, 311–51.

10 Ibid., i, 132.

11 Ibid., p. 513 n. 23.

12 Ibid., ii.311.

13 Ibid., i, 98.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid., p. 345.

16 See ibid., pp 297–8 for this rare use of such letters.

17 See ibid., p. 348 for a single paragraph on Camus, a work which is marked with autobiographical traces like the endorsement of a third-party cheque.

18 fbid., p. 255.

19 Ibid., p. 168.

20 See ibid., ii, 71–84 for republication of the shorter item, which originally appeared in the New Statesman, 26 Feb. 1965.

21 Akenson, Conor, i, 289.

22 Ibid., p. 187.

23 O’Brien, Conor Cruise, Passion and cunning: essays on nationalism, terrorism, and revolution (London, 1988), p. 2 Google Scholar.

24 Akenson, Conor, i, 290; for the review documenting O’Brien’s changes to ‘Passion and cunning’ see Making Sense, no. 2 (1988), pp 8–9.

25 Akenson, Conor, i, 352.

26 Ibid., ii, 98–111.

27 Ibid., p. 313.

28 Ibid., i, 311.

29 Ibid., p. 463.

30 Ibid., p.486.

31 Ibid.