Name: Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57
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Author: David Lloyd
ISBN: 9781843511953

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Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57

Type

Physical Book

Author

Epilogue by

Publisher

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 16.3 x 4.8 cm

Weight

1.04 kg.

ISBN

1843511959

ISBN13

9781843511953

Synopsis "Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57"

Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera's behalf. Broken Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys, through Europe and the Americas, where O'Malley moved in wide social circles that included Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Hart Crane and Jack B. Yeats. Back in Mayo he took up farming. In 1935 he married Helen Hooker, an American heiress, with whom he had three children, Cathal, Etain and Cormac, before a bitter separation. His literary reputation was established with a magnificent memoir, On Another Man's Wound (1936). In later years he was close to John Ford, and worked on The Quiet Man (1952). This vibrant new collection of letters, diaries and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers. It enriches the history of Ireland's troubled independence with reflections on loss and reconciliation. It links the old world to the new - O'Malley perched on the edge of the Atlantic, a folklore collector, art critic and radio broadcaster; autodidact, modernist and intellectual. It conducts a unique conversation with the past. In Broken Landscapes, we travel with O'Malley through Italy, the American Southwest, Mexico and points inbetween. In Taos, he mingled wiht the artistic set around D. H. Lawrence. In Ireland, he drank with Patrick Kavanagh, Liam O'Flaherty and Louis MacNiece. The young painter Louis le Brocquy was his guest on his farm in Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. These places and people remained with O'Malley in his private writing, assembled for the first time from family and institutional archives. Reading these letters, dairies and fragments is to see Ireland in the tumultuous world of the twentieth century, as if for the first time, allowing us to view the intellectual foundations of the State through the eyes of its leading chronicler.

David Lloyd

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David Lloyd, nacido en 1950 en Enfield, Londres, es uno de los artistas británicos más influyentes del cómic moderno. Comenzó su carrera a finales de los años setenta, colaborando con diversas revistas y antologías de terror y aventuras, donde desarrolló un estilo visual oscuro, expresivo y profundamente cinematográfico que más tarde se convertiría en su sello personal.

Durante sus primeros años trabajó para publicaciones británicas y para Marvel UK, ilustrando historias de misterio, crimen y ciencia ficción. Su consagración llegó al unirse al guionista Alan Moore para crear V for Vendetta, una obra distópica ambientada en una Inglaterra totalitaria. Lloyd no solo aportó el aspecto visual de la serie, sino que también diseñó la icónica máscara de Guy Fawkes, un elemento que trascendería la historieta para convertirse en símbolo cultural y político alrededor del mundo.

Tras el éxito de V for Vendetta, Lloyd continuó colaborando con editoriales internacionales en títulos como Night Raven, Hellblazer y diversos proyectos autorales. Su estilo destaca por el uso dramático del claroscuro, composiciones sobrias y una aproximación realista que enfatiza la tensión emocional de cada escena.

En años recientes, Lloyd impulsó Aces Weekly, una antología digital que reúne a artistas de múltiples países, promoviendo nuevas formas de publicar y distribuir cómic en la era digital.

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