A Rich Soup with additional material - Couverture souple

Brian Farrington

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190548738X ISBN 13 : 9781905487387

Editeur : Linden Press, Dublin, 2010

Synopsis

Brian, elder brother of Conor Farrington, the Irish actor, playwright and broadcaster, was born in Dublin in 1925 of distinguished and unusual parents. Most of his life has been spent as an ex-pat Irishman in France (16 years) and Scotland, with brief interludes in places like Manchester and Hungary. His memoir: A Rich Soup. with additional material the title is explained in the last sentence - is far from being the sort of autobiography made up of sentences that should only figure in Xmas letters to neglected cousins (Roy Hattersley). Rather is it a concatenation of anecdotes, descriptions, stories and ideas, some moving, some hilariously funny, being by-products of a long and on the whole enjoyable life spent exploiting an awkwardly heterogeneous set of talents and fitting them into a teacher s career. Pyrenean and Alpine mountains, Irish caverns, life in a left-wing commune in Paris figure in the book. Also, entertainingly described, are Paris in the nineteen fifties, the experience of being on the jury for a French doctorate in Applied Linguistics, orating from a soap-box, and travelling the length and breadth of the winter Highlands as an examiner in French. A pioneer in the use of computers for language learning, Brian ended up running the Language Centre of Aberdeen University. He has also published two collections of poetry one with Dolmen in Dublin and a short book on W B Yeats, as well as designing and programming several innovative software packages. Among the variegated throng of personages whose paths have very briefly crossed his are the Yeats scholar Peter Allt, Simone de Beauvoir, Brendan Behan, the artist Christian Boltanski, Brian Boydell, Noam Chomsky, Maud Gonne, Oisin Kelly, the Belfast folk-singer Frankie McPeake, Georges Pompidou and W B Yeats.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

BRIAN FARRINGTON was born in Dublin in 1925. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a degree in Modern Languages in 1947 and then spent sixteen years teaching in France, at first in lycées, the British Institute, Sciences Po and later at the ENS de Saint-Cloud. After completing an M A in General Linguistics in Manchester University under Prof W Haas he moved to Aberdeen. He was Senior Lecturer in French and Director of the Language Centre, University of Aberdeen from1966 to 1990. He has published research articles in Applied Linguistics, teaching materials for French, and an Essay on W B Yeats. (London, Connolly Publications, 1965). His poetry collections include The Emigrant of a Hundred Townlands. (Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1968), Salt Suds for Keeps, (Koo Press, Aberdeen, 2006). He currently lives in Aberdeen with his wife Olivia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Linden Press, Dublin
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 190548738X
• ISBN 13: 9781905487387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible