Brinsley MacNamara (1890 - 1963) - born John Weldon - was a writer born near Ireland. He worked for the Abbey Theatre and later the registrar of the National Gallery of Ireland. McNamara is most famous for his first printed novel the Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918) and continued to write for many years after this controversial novel, these include The Glorious Uncertainty (1923) and Look at the Heffernans (1926).
McNamara married Helena Degidon, a schoolteacher, in 1920. He died in Dublin in February1963.
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Biography from Princess Grace Irish Library (http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/Mac/MacNamara,B/life.htm)
The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), BrinsleyMacNamara's first published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile.
MacNamara (1890-1963) was never to live in the Irish midlands again but wrote about it for the rest of his days in an outpouring of fiction and drama.
The Burning of BrinsleyMacNamara sets the record straight after generations of conjecture, and lays to rest the ghosts of The Valley.
Valley of the Squinting Windows is a novel by BrinsleyMacNamara, set in the village of Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland.
The novel itself never refers to Delvin by name - the setting is "Garradrimna", a fictitious town - and McNamara insisted it could have been any village in Ireland, but the geographical details set it firmly in the village.
The novel also resulted in a high-profile court case by those who thought that they had been described, and there was such bad feeling in the area against the book that it was publicly burned.
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