Mary Kenny
Flesh & Blood
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love
By Fergal Keane
William Collins 356pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
Fergal Keane is renowned in Britain for his television and radio reports – often from war-torn places – the underlying tone of which is humanitarian compassion. His experience as a foreign and war correspondent has given him an insight into the complexities behind most political situations.
In Wounds he brings this sensibility to the story of his own family and its interweavings with Irish history and politics. The Keanes are a well-known tribe of writers in County Kerry – his uncle, John B Keane, was one of the finest playwrights of rural life in Ireland – and Fergal’s early memories are of storytelling sessions with his father, Eamonn.
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