The Intrusive Apostrophe
Fintan O’Toole, 23 June 1994
Sean O’Faolain: A Life
by Maurice Harmon.
Constable, 326 pp., £16.95, May 1994,0 09 470140 7 Show More
by Maurice Harmon.
Constable, 326 pp., £16.95, May 1994,
Vive Moi! An Autobiography
by Sean O’Faolain.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 377 pp., £20, November 1993,1 85619 376 4 Show More
by Sean O’Faolain.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 377 pp., £20, November 1993,
“... revelations about his attitudes to the education and marriages of his children, Stephen and Julia. Stephen is hardly mentioned in Vive Moi! and Harmon reveals O’Faolain’s frightful treatment of his son; his insistence that he should not mix with children from their village of Killiney, ‘whose language and ways are more colourful than ... ”