Life
1935- [Thomas Michael Keneally]; b. 7 Oct. 1935, N. S. Wales, Australia; descendent of John Kenealy
of Newmarket, Co. Cork, a Fenian deported in 1848; ed. Christian Brothers and entered seminary; active in campaign for Australian republic; issued Schindler’s
List (1982), Booker Prize winner successfully adapted for screen by
Steven Spielberg, and The Great Shame (1999), a novel based on
experience of his wife’s family and particularly Esther Larkin, who
followed her deported husband to Australia after sucessfully petitioning
Lord Lieutenant Ebrington in Dublin.
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Works
The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New
(London: Chatto & Windus 1998), 730pp.
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Criticism
Books Ireland (Feb. 1999), interview, pp.7-8.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)