telegraph.co.uk - 12/19/2008
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, who has died aged 91, was the leading Irish intellectual of his generation, though he assumed so many guises diplomatist, historian, literary critic, proconsul, professor, playwright, government minister, columnist and editor that he defies further categorisation. His ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/21/2008
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Just about every book about Edmund Burke written
after Connor Cruise O'Brien's 1992 The Great Melody takes...
a firm swipe or two at O'Brien. The complaints are many: 'Too much O'Brien, not enough Burke,' say some; there is also the fact of the book's ...
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O'Brien and Burke
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, RIP
Hit & Run —
Irish author and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien has died at the age of 91. As usual, The Telegraph has a very good, comprehensive obituary. A few excerpts: ...
The Spirit Of Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... of "The Great Melody" expresses my feelings about that book entirely. It's a very strange book - my mind associates it with Edmund Morris's "Dutch" - but its strangeness captures the elusive, contradictory, Irish (and Whiggish) Toryism of Burke. The Telegraph's obit, as usual, is the best: ...
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