Sebastian Barry

After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then a young Indian girl crosses their path....

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan´s Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly´s narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.

"Roseanne McNulty e una centenaria reclusa in manicomio. Il Dr. Grene e il suo psichiatra. Entrambi stanno scrivendo: lei, clandestinamente, sta completando la sua autobiografia; lui scrive il suo diario. Roseanne racconta della sua famiglia e della sua stessa vita in rovina per aver cercato di aiutare un ribelle, durante la guerra civile irlandese. Sposata, e stata ripudiata dal marito e si e ritrovata sola e povera per lungo tempo, costretta a vivere in una capanna. Dopo anni di isolamento, ha passato una notte con suo cognato, Eneas, e rimasta incinta, completamente sola, ha partorito un bambino, sottrattole poi nel sonno. Accusata di infanticidio, e stata reclusa in manicomio. Il dr. Grene nei suoi diari racconta invece le ricerche che sta facendo sulla sua paziente Roseanne, la cui vita, nei documenti ufficiali, e molto diversa dalla verita che lei racconta. Il dottore non e per niente convinto della versione ufficiale e tende a credere alla sua paziente. Poco a poco, emerge la menzogna piu grande: il neonato per cui e stata accusata di infanticidio non e morto, ma e stato affidato a un orfanotrofio. Quel bambino portava il nome del dottore. "

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture.Jack McNulty is a ''temporary gentleman'', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.Jack is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.A heart-breaking portrait of one man''s life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack''s last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Now weve lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fucks sake, the chances of that. PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy. A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, ON BLUEBERRY HILL by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the actions of his life. But is he telling the truth? And can he be forgiven? The lost tradition of staging new plays at Canterbury Cathedral, most famously T. S. Eliots Murder in the Cathedral, was revived with the premiere of Sebastian Barrys Dallas Sweetman in September 2008.

This is from the bestselling author of The Secret Scripture, a heartbreaking story of lost love. Jack McNulty, a former UN observer, has worked around the world and seen extraordinary things but, as he contemplates his return to Ireland after many years, his memories are dominated by his tumultuous marriage to Mai Kirwan. A great beauty with a vivid mind, Mai was also an elusive and troubled soul, stuck in a marriage that couldn't last. The Temporary Gentleman is a powerful account of one man's attempt to come to terms with the savage realities of the past.

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"Roseanne McNulty está a punto de cumplir cien años, pero no conoce su edad con certeza, nadie la conoce. Roseanne se enfrenta a un futuro también incierto puesto que el Hospital de Roscommon, en el que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta, va a ser cerrado. Durante las semanas previas a este acontecimiento perturbador, Roseanne conversa con su psiquiatra, el doctor Grene. La relacion entre ambos, discreta pero de confianza despues de tantos años, se intensifica y se complica a causa del duelo del doctor Grene por la muerte de su esposa.A traves de la alternancia de los diarios de ambos personajes, se va tejiendo una narracion profundamente hermosa, y la vida de Roseanne, reflejada en la bruma de la memoria y del recuerdo, se convierte en un recorrido por la historia secreta de Irlanda. Exquisitamente escrita, Barry nos permite recorrer una vida plagada de abusos, muerte y guerra, pero sin olvidar la impronta del amor, la pasion y la esperanza. Por esta maravillosa historia, Sebastian Barry, ha sido finalista por segunda vez consecutiva del Man Booker Prize."

Que la vida es tanca com un cercle, ho sap bé la Lilly Bere. El dolor que la Lilly sent per la pèrdua del seu nét podria ser el mateix que va sentir quan va haver de fugir de Dublín cap als Estats Un

Con sólo dieciocho años, Willie Dunne, hijo de un policía de Dublín, deja su ciudad en 1914 para luchar por la causa de los Aliados. William, por falta de estatura, no ha podido seguir los pasos de su padre para entrar en el cuerpo de policía y eso lo lleva a alistarse para cumplir con su deber patriótico. De este modo el protagonista se convierte en un símbolo de la experiencia de miles de soldados irlandeses, Sebastian Barry incide en el oscuro asunto de la intervención de Irlanda en la Primera Guerra Mundial, mezclándolo con el Alzamiento de Semana Santa, germen del movimiento republicano irlandés. Escrita con la hermosa prosa de Barry, esta conmovedora novela evoca la crueldad y tristeza de la guerra, así como la lealtad dividida que sintieron muchos soldados irlandeses. Siguiendo las experiencias del conflicto a través del corazón del joven soldado protagonista, la narración explora cómo este proceso político afectó a los soldados que luchaban por el rey de Inglaterra en campos extranjeros; las dudas que los paralizaron y la división que causó entre ellos. Una historia sobre identidad y conflicto nacional con la que Sebastian Barry consigue una narración de profunda tristeza y abrumadora compasión que parece dar con la verdad de la condición humana. Una novela poderosa.

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she''s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne''s family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne''s story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland''s changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Celebrated childrens writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gads Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesnt at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens marriage. Andersens English by Sebastian Barry premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint.

AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First CenturyFeatured on BBC2s Between the Covers as a Booker Gem 2021Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where shes spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseannes story becomes an alternative, secret history of Irelands changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA masterpieceSunday TimesStunningLIZ NUGENTExtraordinary Irish TimesTom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms with. And his peace is further disturbed when his new neighbour, a mysterious young mother, asks for his help.A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old Gods Time is an unforgettable exploration of family, loss and love.A wonderful, brutal, utterly compelling book . . . Barry is the most miraculous writer. Russell T Davies To borrow a word that recurs in its pages, it is stupendous, in the sense that it shocks and astonishes.Irish Times Rare indeed are those novels worth cherishing and keeping close. Old Gods Time is one of them.DailyTelegraphSo captivating . . . it will live long in the minds of its readers.IndependentWHAT READERS ARE SAYING:***** A beautiful family love story. It will haunt you and break your heart. ***** Deeply felt and so moving. I will be reading this again. ***** A tragic tale beautifully told. Sebastian Barry is one of the great contemporary writers. ***** Absolute perfection in novel form. ***** Deeply tragic. Deeply humorous. Utterly beautiful. Im in awe. ***** A writer in possession of something divine . just exceptional. ***** Magically transporting . the balance of extreme grief and joy are perfectly expressed.Sebastian Barrys book Old Gods Time was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10-03-2023