`Nobody's Business': The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley presents new insights into the contradictions and complexities of the mind of Ernie O'Malley, one of mid-twentieth century Ireland's foremost cultural critics. In 1941, 1955 and 1956, the former revolutionary leader and author of the acclaimed memoir of the War of Independence, On Another Man's Wound, visited the Aran Islands. While on the islands, O'Malley kept diaries recounting his daily conversations and interactions with other visitors and islanders including Elizabeth Rivers, with whom he stayed on one occasion, Charles Lamb and Sean Keating. The diaries, devoid of sentiment and often highly critical, reveal his views on art, literature, history and contemporary Irish life and international affairs as well as his thoughts on the economic, religious and daily life of the Aran islanders. His unvarnished observations on the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of life in post-Independence Ireland make his diaries absorbing and provocative. Edited with introductory essays by Cormac O'Malley and Roisin Kennedy and an afterword by Luke Gibbons, `Nobody's Business': The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley offers fascinating insights into the mind and opinions of a key figure in Irish cultural nationalism.

About the Author
Penny Perrick was a fashion editor for Vogue, a columnist for The Sun and The Times and a fiction editor for The Sunday Times. Her previous published works include Something to Hide: The Life of Sheila Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt (2007).

Reviews
Cormac K.H. O'Malley co-edited with Anne Dolan No Surrender Here! Civil War Letters of Ernie O'Malley, 19221924 (The Lilliput Press 2007), and, with Nicholas Allen Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O'Malley, 1924-1957 (The Lilliput Press 2011). He lives in Connecticut and is the son of Ernie O'Malley (see www.ernieomalley.com). Roisin Kennedy is lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. She is former Yeats Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland and former Curator of the State Collection at Dublin Castle. She contributed to Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, edited by Fintan O'Toole (Royal Irish Academy 2016) and Art and Architecture of Ireland, III, IV and V (Royal Irish Academy 2014). She curates, writes and publishes widely on modern Irish art and its contexts.



Book Information
ISBN 9781843517153
Author Ernie O'Malley
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd