Keenan, Brian

Brian Keenan
Brian Keenan. Image source culturenorthernireland.org
Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950.

He has published one novel, Turlough (London, Jonathan Cape, 2000).

His other work includes the autobiographical An Evil Cradling (London, Hutchinson, 1992); concerning his experience as a hostage in the Lebanon; and, with his fellow hostage, John McCarthy, Between Extremes (New York, Bantam Press, 1999); Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey (New York, Doubleday, 2004); and the memoir I’ll Tell Me Man (London, Vintage, 2010).

He lives in Dublin.


Brian Keenan at culturenorthernireland.org
Brian Keenan at The National Library of Ireland


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