Intimacy With StrangersCiaran Carty draws upon a career involving many of the worlds leading writers, artists, actors and directors as they explore intimate concerns, ranging from love and rejection to the smallest physical sensations of pleasure and pain, and to the great issues of politics and war, God and atheism the big and small of the human condition. Interweaving recent cultural and social history, Carty exposes unexpected affinities shared by his eclectic cast of

as well as having to negotiate between MerrimanÕs world and their own historical moments

along with extended interview material with survivors from the time

topographical

first published in pamphlet form in 1798 by Arthur O’Connor

and compulsive reading even for those not closely acquainted with the figures who fills its pages

Her second husband was Commander Bill King who singlehandedly circumnavigated the world

Kate O’Brien and Liam O’Flaherty

in his Foreword

old and new

There they are confronted with the grim realities of the teeming city – poverty

and some Sub-committee reports

we have nothing but the arms in our hands