The Anglo-Irish novelist JG Farrell would have been ninety in January had he not drowned in August 1979 while fishing in Bantry Bay. It was an anniversary that passed without comment. The harsh legacy of polio, contracted in Farrell’s first year at Oxford, renders it unlikely that he would have reached old age, but what …
Monthly Archive: February 2025
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
