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Who by Fire - Living and dying on the border with the great Eoin McNamee
Manage episode 483216082 series 3465230
Eoin McNamee received a message when his new novel The Bureau was published telling him it was the book he was ‘born to write’.
This is not a trite phrase. This is a book about living and dying in the north and how so many people who came into the orbit of McNamee’s father died.
Eoin McNamee is our guest on Free State today to tell his story. It is the story of his father too, a complex and complicated personality who, after he was struck off as a solicitor, set up the first Bureau de Change on the border in 1982.
He talks about his father’s recklessness and men like Dominic McGlinchey. He speaks too about the Troubles and the toll it took on people in terms of life, liberty and morality.
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232 episodes
Manage episode 483216082 series 3465230
Eoin McNamee received a message when his new novel The Bureau was published telling him it was the book he was ‘born to write’.
This is not a trite phrase. This is a book about living and dying in the north and how so many people who came into the orbit of McNamee’s father died.
Eoin McNamee is our guest on Free State today to tell his story. It is the story of his father too, a complex and complicated personality who, after he was struck off as a solicitor, set up the first Bureau de Change on the border in 1982.
He talks about his father’s recklessness and men like Dominic McGlinchey. He speaks too about the Troubles and the toll it took on people in terms of life, liberty and morality.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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