Brian Moore ( ; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and

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from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote

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s and several of his books were made into films.

Early life and education

Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and the first Catholic to sit on the senate of

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and his mother, Eileen McFadden Moore, a farmer's daughter from County Donegal, was a nurse. His uncle was the prominent Irish nationalist Eoin MacNeill, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and Professor of Irish at University College Dublin. Moore was educated at St Malachy's College, Belfast. He left the college in 1939, having failed his senior exams. The physical description of the school at the heart of '' The Feast of Lupercal'' matches closely that of Moore's alma mater and is widely held to be a lightly fictionalised setting of the college as he unfondly remembered it.

Wartime service and move to North America

Moore was a volunteer

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during the Second World War and served during the Belfast Blitz in April and May 1941. He went on to serve as a civilian with the British Army in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war ended he worked in Eastern Europe for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. in 1948 he emigrated to Canada to work as a reporter for the '' Montreal Gazette'', and became a Canadian citizen. Moore lived in Canada from 1948 to 1958, moving to New York in 1959 to take up a

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and remaining there until his divorce in 1967. He then moved to the west coast of the United States, settling in Malibu, California, with his new wife Jean. He taught creative writing at UCLA. While eventually making his primary residence in California, Moore continued to live part of each year in Canada up to his death.

Novels and themes

Moore wrote his first novels in Canada. His earliest books were thrillers, published under his own name or using the pseudonyms Bernard Mara or Michael Bryan. The first two of these pieces of pulp fiction, all of which he later disowned, were published in Canada by Harlequin – ''Wreath for a Redhead'' in March 1951 and ''The Executioners'' in July 1951. '' Judith Hearne'', which Moore regarded as his first novel and was the first he produced outside the thriller genre, remains among his most highly regarded. The book was rejected by ten American publishers before being accepted by a British publisher. It was made into a

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, with British actress

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playing the lonely spinster who is the book/film's title character. Other novels by Moore were adapted for the screen, including '' Intent to Kill'', '' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'', ''

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'', '' Cold Heaven'', and '' The Statement''. He co-wrote the screenplay for

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's '' Torn Curtain'', and wrote the screenplay for '' The Blood of Others'', based on the novel '' Le Sang des autres'' by

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. Moore criticised his Belfast schooling through his novels '' The Feast of Lupercal'' and ''

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''. Some of his novels feature staunchly anti-doctrinaire and anti-clerical themes, and in particular, he spoke strongly about the effect of the Church on life in Ireland. A recurring theme in his novels is the concept of the Catholic priesthood. On several occasions, he explores the idea of a priest losing his faith. At the same time, several of his novels are deeply sympathetic and affirming portrayals of the struggles of faith and religious commitment, ''

'' most prominently.

Acclaim

Graham Greene said that Moore was his favourite living novelist, though Moore began to regard the label as "a bit of an albatross".

Personal life

Moore was married twice. His first marriage, in 1952, was to Jacqueline ("Jackie") Sirois (née Scully), a

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and fellow-journalist with whom he had a son, Michael (who became a professional photographer), in 1953. They divorced in October 1967 and Jackie died in January 1976. Moore married his second wife, Jean Russell (née Denney), a former commentator on Canadian TV, in October 1967. Moore's beachside house in Malibu, California was celebrated in Seamus Heaney's poem ''Remembering Malibu''. Moore's widow, Jean, lived in the house until it was destroyed in 2018 in the Woolsey Fire.

Death

Brian Moore died at his Malibu home on 11 January 1999, aged 77, from pulmonary fibrosis. He had been working on a novel about the 19th-century French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud. His last published work before his death was an essay entitled "Going Home". It was a reflection inspired by a visit he made to the grave in Connemara of his family friend, the Irish nationalist Bulmer Hobson. The essay was commissioned by '' Granta'' and published in '' The New York Times'' on 7 February 1999. Despite Moore's often conflicted attitude to Ireland and his Irishness, his concluding reflection in the piece was "The past is buried until, in Connemara, the sight of Bulmer Hobson's grave brings back those faces, those scenes, those sounds and smells which now live only in my memory. And in that moment I know that when I die I would like to come home at last to be buried here in this quiet place among the grazing cows."

Legacy

The Creative Writers Network in Northern Ireland launched in 1996 the Brian Moore Short Story Awards, which were open to all authors of Irish descent. The judges included Glenn Patterson, Lionel Shriver, Carlo Gébler and Maeve Binchy. The awards scheme continued until 2008 and is now defunct. Moore has been the subject of two biographies: ''Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist'' (1998) by

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and ''Brian Moore: A Biography'' (2002) by Patricia Craig. ''Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past'' (2007) by Patrick Hicks provides a critical retrospective of Moore's works. Information about the publishing of Moore's novel ''Judith Hearne'', and the break-up of his marriage can be found in Diana Athill's memoir ''Stet'' (2000). In 1975, Moore arranged for his literary materials, letters and documents to be deposited in the Special Collections Division of the University of Calgary Library, an inventory of which was published by the University of Calgary Press in 1987. Moore's archives, which include unfilmed screenplays, drafts of various novels, working notes, a 42-volume journal (1957–1998), and his correspondenc

are now at Harry Ransom Center, The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at the University of Texas at Austin. To mark the centenary in 2021 of Moore's birth, a project − Brian Moore at 100 − funded by a British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, has sought to re-appraise, and revive scholarly and public interest in, his work. It includes a programme of research, public-facing events and an international academic conference.

Prizes and honours

*1955 Beta Sigma Phi award (best first novel by a Canadian author for ''Judith Hearne'') *1955

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(for ''Judith Hearne'', chosen by

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) *1959

for Fiction *1960 Governor General's Award for Fiction (for ''The Luck of Ginger Coffey'') *1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (for ''The Great Victorian Collection'') *1975 Governor General's Award for Fiction (for ''The Great Victorian Collection'') *1976 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''The Doctor's Wife'') *1987 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''The Colour of Blood'') *1987 The ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year (for ''The Colour of Blood'') *1990 Nominee, Booker Prize (for ''Lies of Silence'') *1994 Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement by the ''Los Angeles Times'' for his novels

Bibliography

Non-fiction and essays

* (with the editors of '' Life'') '' Canada'' (

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) * "Now and Then", ''Threshold 23: The Northern Crisis'', edited by John Montague. Belfast: Lyric Players Theatre (

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

). Republished as "Bloody Ulster: An Irishman's Lament" in '' The Atlantic'', September 1970 * "Old Father, Old Artificer", in ''Irish University Review'' 12 (Spring 1982), chapter 12 (on James Joyce). *
Going Home
in '' The New York Times'', 7 February 1999

Novels

*'' Wreath for a Redhead'' (1951) (U.S. title: ''Sailor's Leave'' pub. 1953) *'' The Executioners'' (1951) *'' French for Murder'' (1954) (as Bernard Mara) *'' A Bullet for My Lady'' (1955) (as Bernard Mar

*'' Judith Hearne'' ( 1955 in literature, 1955) (reprinted as ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' in 1956) *'' This Gun for Gloria'' (1956) (as Bernard Mara) *'' Intent to Kill'' (1956) (as Michael Bryan) *'' The Feast of Lupercal'' (1957) (reprinted as ''A Moment of Love'' in 1969. German translation published in 1964 as '' Saturnischer Tanz'') *'' Murder in Majorca'' (1957) (as Michael Bryan) *'' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1960) *''

An Answer from Limbo ''An Answer from Limbo'' is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published in October 1962. It was written between November 1960 and early 1962, when Moore was living in New York. Plot The central character in the book is Bren ...

'' (1962) *''

'' (1965) *''

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'' (1968) *'' Fergus'' (1970) *'' The Revolution Script'' (1971) *''

'' (1972, Ger 1975: '' Katholiken'') – first printed in ''

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'' 15 (New York: Simon & Schuster 1972) pp. 11–72 *''

The Great Victorian Collection ''The Great Victorian Collection'', published in 1975, is a fantasy novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Carmel, California, it tells the story of a man who dreams that the empty parking lot he can see from his hotel win ...

'' (1975, Ger 1978: '' Die Große Viktorianische Sammlung)'' *'' The Doctor's Wife'' (1976) *''

The Mangan Inheritance ''The Mangan Inheritance'', published in 1979, is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Ireland, it tells the story of a failed poet and cuckolded husband, James Mangan, who discovers a daguerrotype of a bohemian Romantic ...

'' (1979, Ger 1999: '' Mangans Vermächtnis'') (Originally published as ''The Family Album'') *''

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes ''The Temptation of Eileen Hughes'', published in 1981, is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It portrays a quiet young shop assistant from Northern Ireland and her relationship with her rich employers Bernard and Mona McAuley ...

'' (1981, Ger 1999: '' Die Versuchung der Eileen Hughes'') *'' Cold Heaven'' (1983) *''

'' (1985, Ger 1987: '' Schwarzrock'') *''

The Colour of Blood ''The Colour of Blood'', published in 1987, is a political thriller by Northern Irish- Canadian novelist Brian Moore about Stephen Bem, a Cardinal in an unnamed East European country who is in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy ...

'' (1987, Ger 1989: '' Die Farbe des Blutes'') *''

Lies of Silence ''Lies of Silence'' is a novel by Brian Moore published in 1990. It focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, a period of ethnic, religious and political conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998. Plot The plot revolve ...

'' (1990) *''

No Other Life ''No Other Life'' is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published in 1993. The novel is set in the future, on the fictional Caribbean island of Ganae (based loosely on Haiti). The story is told by Father Paul Michel, a Canad ...

'' (1993) *'' The Statement'' (1995, Ger 1997: '' Hetzjagd'') *'' The Magician's Wife'' (1997)

Short story collections

*''Two Stories'' (1978) Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press. Contains "Uncle T" and "Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge" *'' The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020) London: Turnpike Books.

Short stories

*"Sassenach", ''

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'' 5 (October–November 1951) *"Fly Away Finger, Fly Away Thumb", '' London Mystery Magazine'', 17, September 195

reprinted in Peter Haining (author), Haining, Peter (ed.) ''Great Irish Tales of Horror'', Souvenir Press 1995; and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books. *"The Specialist", ''Bluebook'', March 1953 *"Enemies of the People", ''Bluebook'', May 1953 *"The Ridiculous Proposal", ''Bluebook'', January 1954 *"A Vocation", '' Tamarack Review'' 1 (Autumn 1956): 18–22; reprinted in ''Threshold'' 2 (Summer 1958): 21–25; reprinted in Garrity, Devin A (ed.) ''The Irish Genius'', (1960). New York: New American Library, pp. 125–128; reprinted for the Verbal Arts Centre project, 1998; and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books. *"Lion of the Afternoon", '' The Atlantic'', November 1957; reprinted in Pacey, Desmond (ed.) ''A Book of Canadian Stories'' (1962). Toronto: Ryerson Press, pp. 283–293 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Next Thing was Kansas City", ''The Atlantic'', February 1959 *"Grieve for the Dear Departed", ''The Atlantic'', August 1959; reprinted in Pudney, John (ed.) ''Pick of Today's Short Stories'', no. 12, (1960). London: Putnam, pp. 179–188 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Uncle T", ''

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'', November 1960; reprinted in ''Two Stories'', see above and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). Turnpike Books *"Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge", ''Midstream'' 7 (Winter 1961); reprinted in Montague, John and Kinsella, Thomas (eds.) ''The Dolmen: Miscellany of Irish Writing'' (1962), Dublin: Dolman, pp. 1–7; reprinted in Richler, Mordecai (ed.), ''Canadian Writings Today'', Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, pp. 135–145; reprinted in ''Two Stories'', see above and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Hearts and Flowers", '' The Spectator'', 24 November 1961 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"Off the Track", Weaver, Robert (ed.) ''Ten for Wednesday Night'', Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1961, pp. 159–167; reprinted in Giose Rimanelli, Giose; Ruberto, Robert (eds.) (1966), ''Modern Canadian Stories'', Toronto: Ryerson Press, pp. 239–246 and reprinted in Moore, Brian. ''The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories'' (2020). London: Turnpike Books *"The Sight", Hone, Joseph (ed.) ''Irish Ghost Stories'', London:

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, 1977, pp. 100–119; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) ''Black Water'', Picador 1983; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) ''The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories''. Toronto: Oxford University Press 1990 *"A Bed in America" (unpublished; later used in Hitchcock film ''Torn Curtain'') *"A Matter of Faith" (unpublished)

Playscripts

*''The Closing Ritual'' (1979), unperformed *''Catholics'' (1980), based on his own novel –

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, world premiere: Seattle, May 1980 *''The Game'' (undated), unperformed

Screenplays

*''Dustin is Dustin'' (undated film script, now in University of Calgary Special Collection) *''The Goat'' (1964), film script *'' The Luck of Ginger Coffey'' (1964) *'' Torn Curtain'' (1966) *''The Slave'' (1967), based on Moore's novel ''An Answer from Limbo'' *''

'' (1973) *''The Closing Ritual'' (1979) *'' The Blood of Others'' (1984) *''Brainwash'' (1985) *''The Sight'' (1985), a half-hour drama based on a short story by Moore *''

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'' (''Control'') (1987) *''Gabrielle Chanel'' (1988) *''

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'' (1991)

Other films based on Brian Moore's work

* '' Intent to Kill'' (1958), a film with a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, based on the novel written by Moore as Michael Bryan *''Uncle T'' (1985), a half-hour drama, with a script by

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, based on a short story by Moore *'' The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' (1987), a film with a screenplay by Peter Nelson based on Moore's novel *'' Cold Heaven'' (1991), a film with a screenplay by Allan Scott based on Moore's novel * '' The Statement'' (2003), a film with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood based on Moore's novel

Films about Brian Moore

*''The Lonely Passion of Brian Moore'' (198

ref> a documentary featuring Moore and looking at what inspired his work *''The Man From God Knows Where'' (1993), BBC ''Bookmark'' profile

Interviews

* Robert Fulford (journalist), Fulford, Robert. "Robert Fulford Interviews Brian Moore". '' Tamarack Review'' 23 (1962), pp. 5–18 *Dahlie, Hallvard. "Brian Moore: An Interview". ''Tamarack Review 46'' (1968), pp. 7–29 *Sale, Richard. "An Interview in London with Brian Moore". ''Studies in the Novel 1'' (Spring 1969), pp. 67–80 *Gallagher, Michael Paul. "Brian Moore Talks to Michael Paul Gallagher", ''Hibernia'' (10 October 1969), p. 18 *Cameron, Donald. "Brian Moore". ''Conversations with Canadian Novelists, 2''. Toronto:

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(1973), pp. 64–85 *Graham, John. "Brian Moore" in Garrett, George, ed., ''The Writer's Voice: Conversations With Contemporary Writers''. New York: William Morrow and Company (1973), pp. 51–74 *Bray, Richard T., ed. "A Conversation with Brian Moore". ''Critic: A Catholic Review of Books and the Arts'' 35 (Fall 1976), pp. 42–48 *De Santana, Hubert. "Interview with Brian Moore". '' Maclean's'' (11 July 1977), pp. 4–7 *Aris, Stephen. "Moore's Fistful of Dollars", '' The Sunday Times'' (October 1977), pp. 37 *Sharp, Rhoderick. "Brian Moore: an author in exile winning with the luck of the Irish", '' Glasgow Herald'', 7 May 1983, p. 7 *Parker, Geoffrey (1983), ''An Interview with Brian Moore & Bernard MacLaverty'', in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), '' Cencrastus'' No. 14, Autumn 1983, pp. 2 – 4, *Crowe, Marie. "Marie Crowe Talks to Belfast Writer Brian Moore", in '' The Irish Press'' (21 June 1983), p. 9 * Meyer, Bruce and O'Riordan, Brian. "Brian Moore: In Celebration of the Commonplace", in ''In Their Words: Interviews With Fourteen Canadian Novelists''. Toronto:

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(1984), pp. 169–83 *Carty, Ciaran. "Ciaran Carty Talks to Brian Moore", '' Sunday Independent'' (2 June 1985), p. 14 *Adair, Tom. "The Writer as Exile", in ''Linen Hall Review'', 2:4 (1985), pp. 4–6 * Foster, John Wilson. "Q & A with Brian Moore", in ''Irish Literary Supplement: A Review of Irish Books'' (Fall 1985), pp. 44–45 * Haverty, Anne. "The Outsider on the Edge", in ''

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'' (3 November 1985) *O'Donoghue, Andy. "Dialogue", interview with Brian Moore on RTÉ Radio 1 (20 February 1986) * Battersby, Eileen. "No Faith, No Hope, But Clarity: Eileen Battersby in Belfast With the Novelist Brian Moore", ''Sunday Tribune'', (27 April 1990) *Carlson, Julia., ed. "Brian Moore" in ''Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer''. University of Georgia Press (1990) *Christie, Tom
"An Irishman In Malibu: Novelist Brian Moore Has Left Behind His Homeland And Dodged Celebrity In Favor Of An Independent-minded And Highly Successful Literary Life"
in '' Los Angeles Times'' (1 March 1992) *Ford, Nigel. "An Interview With Brian Moore", on ''Bookshelf'', BBC Radio 4 (5 March 1993) *O'Donoghue, Jo. "From the Abstract Sands: Interview with Brian Moore", in ''Books Ireland'' (November 1995), pp. 269–71 * Battersby, Eileen. "Perennial Outsider", a full-page interview in '' The Irish Times'' (12 October 1995) *Rees, Jasper. "Novel way to Miss the Booker Prize", in '' The Independent'' K(24 September 1997), 'Eye' pp. 3–4 * Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore and Patrick Hicks", in ''Irish University Review'' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn – Winter, 2000), pp. 315–320 ''(The last known interview with Brian Moore)'' *Kilgallin, Tony
"Brian Moore: 'my real strength is that I am a truthful writer'"
in '' The Irish Times'', (5 January 2019) ''(Previously unpublished interview recorded in 1973 at Moore's home in Malibu)''

Books and articles about Brian Moore and his work

* Athill, Diana. ''Stet: a memoir'', London: Granta , 2000 * Craig, Patricia. ''Brian Moore: A Biography'',

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, , 2002 *Craig, Patricia,
Brian Moore: a writer who readily accepted the price of his refusal to be typecast"
''The Irish Times'', 16 January 1999. *Cronin, John. "Ulster's Alarming Novels", ''Eire-Ireland IV'' (Winter 1969), p. 27–34 * , 1988 *Dahlie, Hallvard. ''Brian Moore'', Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Co., 1969 *Dahlie, Hallvard. ''Brian Moore'', Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1981 *Flood, Jeanne. ''Brian Moore'', Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press; London:

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, 1974 * Foster, John Wilson. "Passage Through Limbo: Brian Moore's North American Novels", ''Critique XIII'' (Winter 1971), pp. 5–18 *Foster, John Wilson. ''Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction'', Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1974, pp. 122–130; 151–185 * Hicks, Patrick. "History and Masculinity in Brian Moore's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", '' The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'', Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (Jul–Dec 1999), pp. 400–413 *Gearon, Liam. "No other life: Death and Catholicism in the works of Brian Moore", ''Journal of Beliefs and Values'', Vol 19, No 1, pp. 33–46, 1998 *Gearon, Liam. ''Landscapes of Encounter: The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian Moore'', University of Calgary Press, 2002. *Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore's The Feast of Lupercal and the Constriction of Masculinity", ''New Hibernia Review'', Vol 5, No 3, pp. 101–113, Fómhar/Autumn 200

*, Apr–Jul 2007 *Hicks, Patrick. "Sleight-of-Hand: Writing, History and Magic in Brian Moore's The Magician's Wife", ''Commonwealth Essays and Studies Postcolonial Narratives" Issue' 27, 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 87–95. *Hicks, Patrick. ''Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past'',

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Ltd., , , 2007 *Koy, Christopher. "Representations of the Quebecois in Brian Moore's Novels", ''Considering Identity: Views on Canadian Literature and History'' Olomouc: Palacký University Press, 2015, pp. 141–156. *McSweeney, Kerry. ''Four Contemporary Novelists''. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1983, pp. 55–99 *O'Donoghue, Jo. ''Brian Moore: A Critical Study'', Montreal and Kingston:

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, 1991 *Prosky, Murray. "The Crisis of Identity in the Novels of Brian Moore", ''Eire-Ireland VI'' (Fall 1971), pp. 106–118 *Ricks, C. "The Simple Excellence of Brian Moore". '' New Statesman'', 71: pp. 227–228, 1966 * Sampson, Denis. "'Home: A Moscow of the Mind': Notes on Brian Moore's Transition to North America" in ''

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