Contemporary Review, April 1st, 2001
BRIAN Moore, who died in the final year of the twentieth century is increasingly seen as one of the most perceptive novelists of that troubled era. He was born in Belfast on 25th August 1921 and was raised in a devout Catholic family, with six sisters and two brothers. He was educated at St. Malachy's College in north Belfast and at the age of 20 be left home and saw action as a supply clerk with the Allied forces in Italy. In 1948 he went to Canada with his first French wife, Jacqueline Sirois, and his son, working as a journalist in Montreal for a number of years. His early education and rel...
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