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Eoin O’Brien
With extraordinary sensitivity and subtlety
\nA memoir like no other
there has been no complete edition of Behan’s prose
set during the turbulent period of Irish Independence 1921–22
The Village of Longing Book cover type:Paperback Eoin O’BrienThe Village of Longing, George OBriens narrative of his childhood in the somnolent river valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in hardback in 1987. It describes the life and surroundings of an only child raised in an unorthodox household within a close knit society ruled by the twin empires of Castle and Church haunted by the lure of foreignness and