Apr 30, 2019
Thomas Flanagan
Beg, Borrow & Steal
Acrylic on Canvas
80” x 66"
2019
Check out the audio interview here: http://www.ahtcast.com/2019/04/artist-interview-thomas-flanagan.html
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Thomas Flanagan
Beg, Borrow & Steal
Acrylic on Canvas
80” x 66"
2019
Check out the audio interview here: http://www.ahtcast.com/2019/04/artist-interview-thomas-flanagan.html
School Days with Truman Capote and Thomas Flanagan…
Thomas Flanagan, whose Irish History Trilogy of novels is now available from NYRB Classics in ebook format) and Truman Capote were schoolmates at Greenwich High School in Connecticut. This note is collected in Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote.
Thomas Flanagan
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NYRB in Ireland
Taking a trip to Ireland any time soon? Here are some NYRB Classics that might help you along.
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan: In 1798 Wolfe Tone, the leader of the United Irishman, along with 1,000 French Revolutionary forces landed in County Mayo to liberate Ireland from English rule. They failed, but Flanagan uses the events as the basis for his historical novel that veers between the voices of poets, farmers, landlords, priests, soldiers, Protestants, Catholics, English- and Irish-speakers. Hilary Mantel recommended it as one the greatest historical-fiction books of all time.
Troubles by J. G. Farrell: In 1919, after the end of WWI, a young English veteran goes to visit his fiancée in the grand Irish hotel her father owns. The hotel is falling apart —and despite the fact that his fiancée dies and civil war erupts around him, he can’t seem to leave. A very funny novel, somehow.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore: Ms. Hearne is a snobbish, priggish spinster living in Belfast who, for obvious reasons, doesn’t have many friends. She also doesn’t have any money, and a few other problems we won’t divulge here. Not a happy character but a very moving book.
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson: The Aran Islands in Galway Bay are famed for their rugged beauty. Robinson spends the whole book (which isn’t short) describing the perimeter of Inis Mór (”biggest island”) in detail: explicating the geography, history, flora and fauna, myths and stories and personalities and language—and of course his own relation to his adopted and remarkable home-island. You’ll learn about Aran but it will also make you think about your own home and daily journeys around it.
Thomas Flanagan
@tom_flanagan_otc
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Thomas Flanagan
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Thomas Flanagan
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