ALBERT CAMUS OF EUROPE AND AFRICA
1970
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1
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About the Writer and diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 3, 1917. He studied history at Trinity College and found a job in the civil service. While working as a civil servant, he wrote two books Maria Cross (1952) and Parnell and His Party (1957). As a diplomat, he focused on creating an independent position for Ireland in the United Nations and played a critical role in the United Nations intervention in Congo in 1961. In 1969, he won a seat in Ireland's Parliament. He also was editor in chief of The Observer and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and The Irish Independent. He wrote numerous books throughout his lifetime including To Katanga and Back, The Great Melody, My Life and Themes, and The Long Affair. He died on December 18, 2008 at the age of 91.
Author
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author · 12 books
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.
