Book 20: My Father's House, by Joseph O'Connor.
Based on true events, this is the story of a courageous group of people led by Monseigneur Hugh O'Flaherty in Vatican City who risked their lives helping thousands of Jews and Allied POWs get out of Nazi-occupied Rome.
Gripping story, well written.
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#Ghostlight by #josephOConnor is a grand wee yarn. Perfect for wet February afternoons by a fireside. Won't tax the brain. Lovely little flurries of prose. Tis like someone poured all of Sebastian Barry's works into an AI bot and pressed print.
“There’s a blackbird in Dun Laoghaire –
And I’m suddenly a kid,
Asking where from here to Sandycove
My youngest sister hid.
I’m fourteen this Easter.
My job to mind her.
Good Friday on the pier –
And I suddenly can’t find her.
The sky like a bruise
By the lighthouse wall.
We were playing hide-and-seek.
Is she lost? Did she fall?
There’s a blackbird in Dun Laoghaire
And the terror’s like a wave
Breaking hard on a hull,
And the peoples’ faces grave”
— #JosephOConnor
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Read the whole poem:
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/
“Blackbird in Dun Laoghaire – a poem by Joseph O’Connor
Sinéad O’Connor funeral: Poem read by singer’s brother Joseph at private family ceremony”
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/
My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor review – the priest who defied Nazis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/02/my-fathers-house-by-joseph-oconnor-review-the-priest-who-defied-nazis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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