Walter Ellis (born September 7, 1948) is a

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-born, United States-based writer. He spends his summers in France. Ellis is the author of ''The Beginning of the End: The Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood'', the story of his early life in

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, and

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, and his uneasy relationship with his cousin,

Ronnie Bunting Ronnie Bunting (10 January 1948 – 15 October 1980) was a Protestant Irish republican and socialist activist in Ireland. He became a member of the Official IRA in the early 1970s and was a founder-member of the Irish National Liberation Army (I ...

, a leading member of the Irish National Liberation Army, shot dead in 1980. He also wrote ''The Oxbridge Conspiracy: How the Ancient Universities Have Kept Their Stranglehold on the Establishment'' (/), a study of elitism in higher education in England. He has lived in New York since 2001. His wife Louisa is a graphic designer and painter. His son, Jamie Ellis, is a record producer. Walter Ellis, formerly a journalist and foreign correspondent for several British and Irish newspapers, now writes obituaries for The Times of London. He is also moving into the field of fiction. His thriller, The Fleeing Man, was published in Italy in 2010 (as Il Codice Caravaggio) and came out in Ireland in the summer of 2012, achieving excellent reviews.

References

*Ellis, W. (2006). ''The Beginning of the End: the Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood''. Edinburgh: Mainstream Press.

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