Tory Island, poitín, and prohibition
Thanks to Rory Naughton who has brought this family history on the Clare Co Council library page. John Cunningham gives an interesting and entertaining account of his father Michael’s life…
Category: rogues
“Biography is a thoroughly reprehensible genre”
Only a few days after I made a rather grumpy comment on the quality of the Spectator now, comes this piece by Roger Lewis on the dodginess of biography. Lewis…
“a confidence man, ivory poacher and all-round rogue “
The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…
“occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist”
Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up I came across a reference to a William Seabrook: William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…
Séamus Sweeney 