Blends a unique use of language and changing points of view to explore the ideals, events, and attitudes of 1960s America

Dream-time: Some Chapters from the Sixties

History

O'Brien, George

Americas

Penguin??Books

O'Brien, George. The Village of Longing and Dancehall Days. First Penguin edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1990. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 325, (2) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Contains the following chapters: The Village of Longing: My Three Parents, Corners, The Duchy, The Other Empire, The Clash of Ash; Dancehall Days: Cucoos, Boy Wanted, A Swim in the Canal.

The Village of Longing: Dancehall Days

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Irish author recounts his experiences growing up in Lismore, County Waterford, in the 1950's, as well as life in Dublin in 1962

The Village of Longing: and Dancehall Days

Viking/Penguin

Brian Friel (Twayne's English Authors Series) [Dec 01, 1989] O'Brien, George

Brian Friel (Twayne's English Authors Series)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

Brian Friel: A Reference Guide 1962-1992 (Reference Publication in Literature)

G.K. Hall

The Village of Longing

Blackstaff Press

As the 'winds of change growl through the generation gap', Irishman George O'Brien arrives in 1960s London to an inauspicious debut slaving in a Lambeth pub. Soon sacked and on the street, he finds work in the West End offices of a gas company, proud to be a commuter ('I couldn't get more modern than that'). Before long he is hopelessly entranced by 'a myriad Marianne Faithfulls, convents of Cathy McGowans' and gleefully 'sliding from one self to another'.Becoming a drummer who can't drum, George embarks on a hilariously ill-fated attempt at pop stardom with his girlfriend Liz (with whom he discovers the 'age of the relationship'). But most of his time is spent dropping out and tuning in to the sounds of Hendrix, the Yardbirds and John Peel's Perfumed Garden. After 'playing the hobo' in Paris, he finds himself at Ruskin College, Oxford - where, charged with the 'electricity of righteousness', he plots the Revolution (over pints, of course) with a motley squad of militants.Equally on guard against the distortions of hindsight and the swagger of the ego, George O'Brien has triumphantly re-created the 'pure adrenalin, pure purpose' of being young and alive and in England in the swinging sixties.

Out of Our Minds

Blackstaff Pr

The first volume of George O'Briens' autobiography

The village of longing

Literary

Lilliput Press

Dancehall days

Lilliput

This work offers a unique perspective on the rise of capitalism and socialism and the effect of the Reformation. Specific topics include consequences of belief in the private judgment of scriptures; separation of spiritual and secular life; difference between Lutheran and Calvinist teachings on economics; the Calvinist concept of vocation; its perception of material success as a sign of divine election; its praise of frugality and disdain for beauty. Also covered is socialism as a reaction to excesses of capitalism; the manner in which Protestantism had strengthened secular authority; diminuation of charity toward the poor following Reformation; materialism underlying socialism abetted by Protestant emphasis on earthly prosperity; egalitarian ideas traceable to Protestantism; and the ease with which socialism blended into Protestant thought. This is a unique work of economic philosophy in that it examines the ideological causes of the economic changes of the period, thus offering a refreshing philosophical perspective rather than merely the mathematical or statistical sides of the question.

An Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation

IHS Press

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