Aye Write Festival: Brian Keenan biography

Brian Keenan became world famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of his testimony of imprisonment and survival An Evil Cradling. He now writes about growing up in Belfast after the Second World War in 'I’ll Tell Me Ma'. Keenan captures perfectly the vanished world of 1950s Belfast in all its vivid vernacular and grey, post-war austerity. At the centre is a shy, self-conscious boy of unusual moral integrity; a boy puzzled by religion and sectarianism, in love with books and music and full of curiosity about the world outside.

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