Life
Irish American author; son of Belfast Catholic parents; A Drinking
Life (Bayrock/Viking 1994; Wolfhound 1996), first issued by Deirdre
of the Sorrows Enterprises, it spent 20 weeks on NY Times best
seller list, it narrates the life and times of a son of Irish immigrants
in Brooklyn, who works as a journalist in Vietnam, Lebanon, and N. Ireland,
and gives up drink and drinking culture on the brink of ruin, 20 years
before composition; also Killing for Christ; The Gift; Dirty
Laundry; The Deadly Piece; The Guns of Heaven (1984);
also two collections of short stories, Invisible City, and Tokyo
Sketches; also Irrational Ravings, journalism (Jan. 1996);
address at 94, Horatio St., 602 NY NY, 10014 USA [212 366 0488]; related
to Brendan Hamill of Belfast.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)