Brennan, Georgina Irish Voice 11-18-2003 WAS Patrick O'Brian Irish? Actually, the question should be: Why did an Englishman proclaim to the world that he was an Irishman, going so far as to die in Dublin? After all, on the surface O'Brian was as English as roses. The best-selling author's 20 adventure novels about the British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars made him a literary celebrity. They have even been turned into a movie starring Russell Crowe. But O'Brian had a bit of fiction in his own life. First of all, that very Irish name was not the one he was born with. O'Brian rarely granted in...
