Brian Moore ( ; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a

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and

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from

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, who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the

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, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of

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, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the

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in 1975 and the inaugural ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote

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s and several of his books were made into films.

Early life and education

Moore was born and grew up in

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with eight siblings in a large

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family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and the first Catholic to sit on the senate of Queen's University and his mother, Eileen McFadden Moore, a farmer's daughter from

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, was a nurse. His uncle was the prominent

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, founder of

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(the Gaelic League) and Professor of Irish at

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. Moore was educated at

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, Belfast. He left the college in 1939, having failed his senior exams. The physical description of the school at the heart of '' The Feast of Lupercal'' matches closely that of Moore's alma mater and is widely held to be a lightly fictionalised setting of the college as he unfondly remembered it.

Wartime service and move to North America

Moore was a volunteer air raid warden during the Second World War and served during the

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in April and May 1941. He went on to serve as a civilian with the

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in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war ended he worked in Eastern Europe for the

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. in 1948 he emigrated to Canada to work as a reporter for the ''

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'', and became a

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citizen. Moore lived in Canada from 1948 to 1958, moving to New York in 1959 to take up a Guggenheim Fellowship and remaining there until his divorce in 1967. He then moved to the west coast of the United States, settling in

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, with his new wife Jean. He taught

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. While eventually making his primary residence in California, Moore continued to live part of each year in Canada up to his death.

Novels and themes

Moore wrote his first novels in Canada. His earliest books were

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, published under his own name or using the pseudonyms Bernard Mara or Michael Bryan. The first two of these pieces of pulp fiction, all of which he later disowned, were published in Canada by

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– ''Wreath for a Redhead'' in March 1951 and ''The Executioners'' in July 1951. '' Judith Hearne'', which Moore regarded as his first novel and was the first he produced outside the thriller genre, remains among his most highly regarded. The book was rejected by ten American publishers before being accepted by a British publisher. It was made into a film, with British actress Maggie Smith playing the lonely

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who is the book/film's title character. Other novels by Moore were adapted for the screen, including '' Intent to Kill'', '' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'', '' Catholics'', '' Black Robe'', '' Cold Heaven'', and '' The Statement''. He co-wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's ''

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'', and wrote the screenplay for '' The Blood of Others'', based on the novel '' Le Sang des autres'' by Simone de Beauvoir. Moore criticised his Belfast schooling through his novels '' The Feast of Lupercal'' and '' The Emperor of Ice-Cream''. Some of his novels feature staunchly anti-doctrinaire and

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themes, and in particular, he spoke strongly about the effect of the Church on life in Ireland. A recurring theme in his novels is the concept of the

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. On several occasions, he explores the idea of a priest losing his faith. At the same time, several of his novels are deeply sympathetic and affirming portrayals of the struggles of faith and religious commitment, '' Black Robe'' most prominently.

Acclaim

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said that Moore was his favourite living novelist, though Moore began to regard the label as "a bit of an albatross".

Personal life

Moore was married twice. His first marriage, in 1952, was to Jacqueline ("Jackie") Sirois (née Scully), a French Canadian and fellow-journalist with whom he had a son, Michael (who became a professional photographer), in 1953. They divorced in October 1967 and Jackie died in January 1976. Moore married his second wife, Jean Russell (née Denney), a former commentator on Canadian TV, in October 1967. Moore's beachside house in

was celebrated in

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's poem ''Remembering Malibu''. Moore's widow, Jean, lived in the house until it was destroyed in 2018 in the

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Death

Brian Moore died at his Malibu home on 11 January 1999, aged 77, from

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. He had been working on a novel about the 19th-century French symbolist poet

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. His last published work before his death was an essay entitled "Going Home". It was a reflection inspired by a visit he made to the grave in

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of his family friend, the Irish nationalist

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. The essay was commissioned by ''

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'' and published in ''

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'' on 7 February 1999. Despite Moore's often conflicted attitude to Ireland and his Irishness, his concluding reflection in the piece was "The past is buried until, in Connemara, the sight of Bulmer Hobson's grave brings back those faces, those scenes, those sounds and smells which now live only in my memory. And in that moment I know that when I die I would like to come home at last to be buried here in this quiet place among the grazing cows."

Legacy

The Creative Writers Network in Northern Ireland launched in 1996 the Brian Moore Short Story Awards, which were open to all authors of Irish descent. The judges included

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, Carlo Gébler and

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. The awards scheme continued until 2008 and is now defunct. Moore has been the subject of two biographies: ''Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist'' (1998) by Denis Sampson and ''Brian Moore: A Biography'' (2002) by Patricia Craig. ''Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past'' (2007) by Patrick Hicks provides a critical retrospective of Moore's works. Information about the publishing of Moore's novel ''Judith Hearne'', and the break-up of his marriage can be found in

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's memoir ''Stet'' (2000). In 1975, Moore arranged for his literary materials, letters and documents to be deposited in the Special Collections Division of the

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Library, an inventory of which was published by the

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in 1987. Moore's archives, which include unfilmed screenplays, drafts of various novels, working notes, a 42-volume journal (1957–1998), and his correspondenc

are now at Harry Ransom Center, The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at the

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. To mark the centenary in 2021 of Moore's birth, a project − Brian Moore at 100 − funded by a

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Small Research Grant, has sought to re-appraise, and revive scholarly and public interest in, his work. It includes a programme of research, public-facing events and an international academic conference.

Prizes and honours

*1955 Beta Sigma Phi award (best first novel by a Canadian author for ''Judith Hearne'') *1955 Authors' Club First Novel Award (for ''Judith Hearne'', chosen by C.S. Forester) *1959 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction *1960 Governor General's Award for Fiction (for ''The Luck of Ginger Coffey'') *1975

for Fiction (for ''The Great Victorian Collection'') *1975 Governor General's Award for Fiction (for ''The Great Victorian Collection'') *1976 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''The Doctor's Wife'') *1987 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''The Colour of Blood'') *1987 The ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year (for ''The Colour of Blood'') *1990 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''Lies of Silence'') *1994

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for Lifetime Achievement by the ''Los Angeles Times'' for his novels

Bibliography

Non-fiction and essays

* (with the editors of ''

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'' (

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...

) * "Now and Then", ''Threshold 23: The Northern Crisis'', edited by John Montague. Belfast: Lyric Players Theatre (

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). Republished as "Bloody Ulster: An Irishman's Lament" in ''

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'', September 1970 * "Old Father, Old Artificer", in ''Irish University Review'' 12 (Spring 1982), chapter 12 (on

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). *
Going Home
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'', 7 February 1999

Novels

*'' Wreath for a Redhead'' (1951) (U.S. title: ''Sailor's Leave'' pub. 1953) *'' The Executioners'' (1951) *'' French for Murder'' (1954) (as Bernard Mara) *'' A Bullet for My Lady'' (1955) (as Bernard Mar

*'' Judith Hearne'' ( 1955 in literature, 1955) (reprinted as ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' in 1956) *'' This Gun for Gloria'' (1956) (as Bernard Mara) *'' Intent to Kill'' (1956) (as Michael Bryan) *'' The Feast of Lupercal'' (1957) (reprinted as ''A Moment of Love'' in 1969. German translation published in 1964 as '' Saturnischer Tanz'') *'' Murder in Majorca'' (1957) (as Michael Bryan) *'' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1960) *'' An Answer from Limbo'' (1962) *'' The Emperor of Ice-Cream'' (1965) *'' I Am Mary Dunne'' (1968) *'' Fergus'' (1970) *''

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'' (1971) *'' Catholics'' (1972, Ger 1975: '' Katholiken'') – first printed in '' New American Review'' 15 (New York:

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1972) pp. 11–72 *'' The Great Victorian Collection'' (1975, Ger 1978: '' Die Große Viktorianische Sammlung)'' *''

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'' (1976) *'' The Mangan Inheritance'' (1979, Ger 1999: '' Mangans Vermächtnis'') (Originally published as ''The Family Album'') *'' The Temptation of Eileen Hughes'' (1981, Ger 1999: '' Die Versuchung der Eileen Hughes'') *'' Cold Heaven'' (1983) *'' Black Robe'' (1985, Ger 1987: '' Schwarzrock'') *'' The Colour of Blood'' (1987, Ger 1989: '' Die Farbe des Blutes'') *'' Lies of Silence'' (1990) *'' No Other Life'' (1993) *'' The Statement'' (1995, Ger 1997: '' Hetzjagd'') *'' The Magician's Wife'' (1997)

Short story collections

*''Two Stories'' (1978) Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press. Contains "Uncle T" and "Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge" *'' The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020) London: Turnpike Books.

Short stories

*"Sassenach", '' Northern Review'' 5 (October–November 1951) *"Fly Away Finger, Fly Away Thumb", '' London Mystery Magazine'', 17, September 195

reprinted in Peter Haining (author), Haining, Peter (ed.) ''Great Irish Tales of Horror'',

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1995; and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books. *"The Specialist", ''Bluebook'', March 1953 *"Enemies of the People", ''Bluebook'', May 1953 *"The Ridiculous Proposal", ''Bluebook'', January 1954 *"A Vocation", '' Tamarack Review'' 1 (Autumn 1956): 18–22; reprinted in ''Threshold'' 2 (Summer 1958): 21–25; reprinted in Garrity, Devin A (ed.) ''The Irish Genius'', (1960). New York:

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, pp. 125–128; reprinted for the

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project, 1998; and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books. *"Lion of the Afternoon", ''

'', November 1957; reprinted in Pacey, Desmond (ed.) ''A Book of Canadian Stories'' (1962). Toronto:

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, pp. 283–293 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Next Thing was Kansas City", ''The Atlantic'', February 1959 *"Grieve for the Dear Departed", ''The Atlantic'', August 1959; reprinted in Pudney, John (ed.) ''Pick of Today's Short Stories'', no. 12, (1960). London: Putnam, pp. 179–188 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Uncle T", '' Gentleman's Quarterly'', November 1960; reprinted in ''Two Stories'', see above and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). Turnpike Books *"Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge", ''Midstream'' 7 (Winter 1961); reprinted in Montague, John and Kinsella, Thomas (eds.) ''The Dolmen: Miscellany of Irish Writing'' (1962), Dublin: Dolman, pp. 1–7; reprinted in Richler, Mordecai (ed.), ''Canadian Writings Today'',

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'', 24 November 1961 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Off the Track", Weaver, Robert (ed.) ''Ten for Wednesday Night'', Toronto:

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Ltd., 1961, pp. 159–167; reprinted in Giose Rimanelli, Giose; Ruberto, Robert (eds.) (1966), ''Modern Canadian Stories'', Toronto:

, pp. 239–246 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"The Sight", Hone, Joseph (ed.) ''Irish Ghost Stories'', London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977, pp. 100–119; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) ''Black Water'', Picador 1983; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) ''The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories''. Toronto:

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1990 *"A Bed in America" (unpublished; later used in Hitchcock film ''Torn Curtain'') *"A Matter of Faith" (unpublished)

Playscripts

*''The Closing Ritual'' (1979), unperformed *''Catholics'' (1980), based on his own novel –

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, world premiere: Seattle, May 1980 *''The Game'' (undated), unperformed

Screenplays

*''Dustin is Dustin'' (undated film script, now in

Special Collection) *''The Goat'' (1964), film script *'' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1964) *''

'' (1966) *''The Slave'' (1967), based on Moore's novel ''An Answer from Limbo'' *'' Catholics'' (1973) *''The Closing Ritual'' (1979) *'' The Blood of Others'' (1984) *''Brainwash'' (1985) *''The Sight'' (1985), a half-hour drama based on a short story by Moore *'' Il Giorno prima'' (''Control'') (1987) *''Gabrielle Chanel'' (1988) *'' The Temptation of Eileen Hughes'' (TV film; 1988) *'' Black Robe'' (1991)

Other films based on Brian Moore's work

* '' Intent to Kill'' (1958), a film with a screenplay by

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, based on the novel written by Moore as Michael Bryan *''Uncle T'' (1985), a half-hour drama, with a script by Gerald Wexler, based on a short story by Moore *'' The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' (1987), a film with a screenplay by Peter Nelson based on Moore's novel *'' Cold Heaven'' (1991), a film with a screenplay by Allan Scott based on Moore's novel * '' The Statement'' (2003), a film with a screenplay by

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based on Moore's novel

Films about Brian Moore

*''The Lonely Passion of Brian Moore'' (198

ref> a documentary featuring Moore and looking at what inspired his work *''The Man From God Knows Where'' (1993), BBC ''Bookmark'' profile

Interviews

* Robert Fulford (journalist), Fulford, Robert. "Robert Fulford Interviews Brian Moore". '' Tamarack Review'' 23 (1962), pp. 5–18 *Dahlie, Hallvard. "Brian Moore: An Interview". ''Tamarack Review 46'' (1968), pp. 7–29 *Sale, Richard. "An Interview in London with Brian Moore". ''Studies in the Novel 1'' (Spring 1969), pp. 67–80 *Gallagher, Michael Paul. "Brian Moore Talks to Michael Paul Gallagher", ''Hibernia'' (10 October 1969), p. 18 *Cameron, Donald. "Brian Moore". ''Conversations with Canadian Novelists, 2''. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada (1973), pp. 64–85 *Graham, John. "Brian Moore" in Garrett, George, ed., ''The Writer's Voice: Conversations With Contemporary Writers''. New York:

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(1973), pp. 51–74 *Bray, Richard T., ed. "A Conversation with Brian Moore". ''Critic: A Catholic Review of Books and the Arts'' 35 (Fall 1976), pp. 42–48 *De Santana, Hubert. "Interview with Brian Moore". ''

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'' (11 July 1977), pp. 4–7 *Aris, Stephen. "Moore's Fistful of Dollars", ''

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'' (October 1977), pp. 37 *Sharp, Rhoderick. "Brian Moore: an author in exile winning with the luck of the Irish", ''

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'' No. 14, Autumn 1983, pp. 2 – 4, *Crowe, Marie. "Marie Crowe Talks to Belfast Writer Brian Moore", in ''

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'' (21 June 1983), p. 9 * Meyer, Bruce and O'Riordan, Brian. "Brian Moore: In Celebration of the Commonplace", in ''In Their Words: Interviews With Fourteen Canadian Novelists''. Toronto: House of Anansi Press (1984), pp. 169–83 *Carty, Ciaran. "Ciaran Carty Talks to Brian Moore", '' Sunday Independent'' (2 June 1985), p. 14 *Adair, Tom. "The Writer as Exile", in ''Linen Hall Review'', 2:4 (1985), pp. 4–6 * Foster, John Wilson. "Q & A with Brian Moore", in ''Irish Literary Supplement: A Review of Irish Books'' (Fall 1985), pp. 44–45 * Haverty, Anne. "The Outsider on the Edge", in '' Sunday Tribune'' (3 November 1985) *O'Donoghue, Andy. "Dialogue", interview with Brian Moore on

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(20 February 1986) * Battersby, Eileen. "No Faith, No Hope, But Clarity: Eileen Battersby in Belfast With the Novelist Brian Moore", ''Sunday Tribune'', (27 April 1990) *Carlson, Julia., ed. "Brian Moore" in ''Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer''.

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(1990) *Christie, Tom
"An Irishman In Malibu: Novelist Brian Moore Has Left Behind His Homeland And Dodged Celebrity In Favor Of An Independent-minded And Highly Successful Literary Life"
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(5 March 1993) *O'Donoghue, Jo. "From the Abstract Sands: Interview with Brian Moore", in ''Books Ireland'' (November 1995), pp. 269–71 * Battersby, Eileen. "Perennial Outsider", a full-page interview in ''

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'' K(24 September 1997), 'Eye' pp. 3–4 * Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore and Patrick Hicks", in ''Irish University Review'' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn – Winter, 2000), pp. 315–320 ''(The last known interview with Brian Moore)'' *Kilgallin, Tony
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Books and articles about Brian Moore and his work

* Athill, Diana. ''Stet: a memoir'', London:

, 2000 * Craig, Patricia. ''Brian Moore: A Biography'', Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2002 *Craig, Patricia,
Brian Moore: a writer who readily accepted the price of his refusal to be typecast"
''The Irish Times'', 16 January 1999. *Cronin, John. "Ulster's Alarming Novels", ''Eire-Ireland IV'' (Winter 1969), p. 27–34 * , 1988 *Dahlie, Hallvard. ''Brian Moore'', Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Co., 1969 *Dahlie, Hallvard. ''Brian Moore'', Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1981 *Flood, Jeanne. ''Brian Moore'', Lewisburg, Penn.:

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; London: Associated University Presses, 1974 * Foster, John Wilson. "Passage Through Limbo: Brian Moore's North American Novels", ''Critique XIII'' (Winter 1971), pp. 5–18 *Foster, John Wilson. ''Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction'', Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1974, pp. 122–130; 151–185 * Hicks, Patrick. "History and Masculinity in Brian Moore's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", '' The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'', Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (Jul–Dec 1999), pp. 400–413 *Gearon, Liam. "No other life: Death and Catholicism in the works of Brian Moore", ''Journal of Beliefs and Values'', Vol 19, No 1, pp. 33–46, 1998 *Gearon, Liam. ''Landscapes of Encounter: The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian Moore'',

, 2002. *Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore's The Feast of Lupercal and the Constriction of Masculinity", ''New Hibernia Review'', Vol 5, No 3, pp. 101–113, Fómhar/Autumn 200

*, Apr–Jul 2007 *Hicks, Patrick. "Sleight-of-Hand: Writing, History and Magic in Brian Moore's The Magician's Wife", ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies Postcolonial Narratives" Issue' 27, 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 87–95. *Hicks, Patrick. ''Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past'', Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., , , 2007 *Koy, Christopher. "Representations of the Quebecois in Brian Moore's Novels", ''Considering Identity: Views on Canadian Literature and History''

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: Palacký University Press, 2015, pp. 141–156. *McSweeney, Kerry. ''Four Contemporary Novelists''. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1983, pp. 55–99 *O'Donoghue, Jo. ''Brian Moore: A Critical Study'', Montreal and Kingston: McGill University Press, 1991 *Prosky, Murray. "The Crisis of Identity in the Novels of Brian Moore", ''Eire-Ireland VI'' (Fall 1971), pp. 106–118 *Ricks, C. "The Simple Excellence of Brian Moore". ''

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'', 71: pp. 227–228, 1966 * Sampson, Denis. "'Home: A Moscow of the Mind': Notes on Brian Moore's Transition to North America" in '' Colby Quarterly'', vol. 31, issue 1 (March 1995). pp. 46–54 *Sampson, Denis. ''Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist'', Toronto:

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, 1998 *Schumacher, Antje. ''Brian Moore's Black Robe: Novel, Screenplay(s) and Film'' (European University Studies. Series 14: Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature. Vol. 494),

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: Peter Lang. Language: English , 2010 *Spear, Hilda D., "Two Belfast Novels: An Introduction to the Work of Brian Moore", in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), ''The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment'' 31, August 1983, pp. 33 – 37, *Sullivan, Robert. ''A Matter of Faith: The Fiction of Brian Moore'', London and

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: Praeger, , 1996 * Whitehouse, J. C. "Grammars of Assent and Dissent in Graham Greene and Brian Moore" in Whitehouse, J. C. (ed.) ''Catholics on Literature'', Four Courts Press, , 1996, pp. 99–107

Notes and references

Sources

* Crowley, Michael. "A Brian Moore Bibliography" in '' The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'', Vol. 23, No. 2 (Dec 1997), pp. 89–121 DOI: 10.2307/25515225

External links

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