Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...

She was born in the Irish Free State on January 12, 1930, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. She is the daughter of Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, and a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, who was a Catholic convert. The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) (1922–1937) was the name of the state comprising the 26 of Irelands 32 counties that were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... Denis Johnston (June 18, 1901 – August 8, 1984) was an Irish dramatist who was awarded an OBE 1945 and was also a member of Aosdána. ... Geraldine Fitzgerald Geraldine Fitzgerald (24 November 1913 - 17 July 2005) was an Irish-American actress. ...

She currently lives in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Derry Area: 2,074 km² Population (est. ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Languages English (De facto) 3, Irish, Ulster Scots 4 Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th...

Many of her novels deal with the fading of the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the 20th century. Anglo-Irish was a term used historically to describe middle and upper class inhabitants of Ireland who were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy[1], mostly belonging to the Anglican Church of Ireland or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Bibliography

Novels

• The Captains and the Kings (1972)
• The Gates (1973)
• How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974)
• Shadows on Our Skin (1977)
• The Old Jest (1979), winner of a Whitbread Book Award for 1979
• The Christmas Tree (1981)
• The Railway Station Man (1985)
• Fool's Sanctuary (1988)
• The Invisible Worm (1992)
• The Illusionist (1995)
• Two Moons (1998)
• Finbar's Hotel, edited by Dermot Bolger (1999) (Contributor)
• The Essential Jennifer Johnston (1999) (contains The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man, and Fool's Sanctuary)
• Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery (2000) (Contributor)
• The Gingerbread Woman (2000)
• This is not a Novel (2002)
• Grace and Truth (2005)

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Plays

• The Nightingale and Not the Lark (1981)
• Indian Summer (1983)
• Andante un Poco Mosso, in The Best Short Plays 1983, (1983)
• The Porch (1986)
• The Desert Lullaby: A Play in Two Acts (1996)

She is a member of Aosdána. An Indian summer day Indian summer (also called Old Wives summer in the United Kingdom) is a name given to a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter. ... The restored Stoa of Attalos in Athens. ... Disambiguation: you may also be looking for Aois-dàna or Aes Dana Aosdána (from aos dána, Irish people of the arts) is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. ...

External links

• Jennifer Johnston at www.contemporarywriters.com