Unquiet Spirit: Essays in Memory of David Thornley - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905483473 ISBN 13 : 9781905483471

Editeur : Liberties Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

David Thornley s daughter, Yseult, has here assembled a high-profile and respected coterie of commentators many perhaps meriting a book of their own to offer us this first and unique personal glimpse of Thornley the man: one that we perhaps did not get by watching his career from afar on our television screens. There are chapters by his friends, family, students and colleagues, including Michael D. Higgins, Rodney Rice, Muiris Mac Conghail, and John Bowman (to name but a few), this book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of this superb teacher, idealistic and passionate politician, incisive television broadcaster. In addition, the book also includes some of Thornley s own writings, which demonstrate admirably his knack for cutting to the quick of any argument; and even several of his contributions in Dáil Éireann which, even more than thirty years on, still appear oddly relevant at times even prophetic to the Ireland of today. What we have then is a collaborative portrait of a complex and truly gifted man whose premature passing, leaving us wondering what he might have accomplished.

Revue de presse

He helped a nation to think and develop, to respond to new, difficult situations and confront them successfully ... This work is a fitting and compassionate tribute to an extraordinary man. --Ruairi Quinn

A highlight is the inclusion of a series of Thornley's own writings ... The essay writers do a much finer job in assessing Thornley's role as a broadcaster and academic than his career as a politician ... it is David's own words that are revelatory here. --Irish Independent

It's good to see him receiving this belated tribute, a collection of essays by his friends and colleagues ... the contributors pay full tribute to Thornley's academic brilliance, but they also depict him as eccentric, highly strung and, in many ways, his own worst enemy. --Sunday Business Post

His short lifespan with his multiple interests and accomplishments throws new ights on Ireland in the sixties and seventies. --Books Ireland

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liberties Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905483473
• ISBN 13: 9781905483471
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Thornley Yseult
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible