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Conor Cruise O'Brien

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

November 03, 1917

Died

December 18, 2008

Genre

Politics, History, Social Sciences

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Irish politician, writer, historian and academic.

Member of the Irish Parliament for the socialist Labour Party.

Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for the United Kingdom Unionist Party, which advocated direct rule of Northern Ireland from London.

Virulently anti-IRA.

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Conor Cruise O'Brien’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 1,117 ratings · 153 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	Camus 3.76 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1970 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism 4.38 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Concise History of Ireland by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Maire MacEntee O'Brien 3.28 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke 4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	States of Ireland 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First in Peace: How George Washington Set the Course for America by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers and Politics 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edmund Burke 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.”
― Conor Cruise O'Brien

tags: charles-dickens, gradgrind, hard-times, harold-macmillan, martin-chuzzlewit, state-of-katanga, united-kingdom, united-nations

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“British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.”
― Conor Cruise O'Brien, On the Eve of the Millennium

tags: diplomacy, douglas-hurd, western-world

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