Memoir of Bernard Phelan: a 'truly terrifying story'Three very different non-fiction books feature this week, along with two Irish crime novels. You Will Die in Prison, Bernard Phelan, Eriu, €15.99This is the shocking memoir of Bernard Phelan, an Irish travel agent and bar owner resident in Paris since the 1980s. Because Phelan had travelled on his French passport, he was arrested on trumped-up charges of sedition. Eventually he was released, and this is his truly terrifying story. We think of Yeats, we think of Wilde himself and of Synge, when we remember great Irish writers of this time, but not many think of Mangan.

Source: Irish Independent October 19, 2024 14:20 UTC