Moore, Brian
Moore, Brian ( 1921 – 99 ),novelist, born and educated in Belfast, the son of a Roman Catholic surgeon of strong Irish nationalist views. He emigrated in 1948 to Canada and subsequently moved to the USA. Some early pot-boilers were published pseudonymously. The first serious work under his own name was Judith Hearne ( 1955 ; published in the USA as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, 1956 ), a poignant story of a lonely Belfast spinster who takes refuge in alcohol. His subsequent works, many of which deal with transatlantic migrations, include The Feast of Lupercal ( 1957 , set in Belfast); The Luck of Ginger Coffey ( 1960 , describing the misfortunes and daydreams of an Irish immigrant in Canada); I am Mary Dunne ( 1968 , a first-person female narration set in America), Catholics ( 1972 , a papal representative visiting an Irish religious community some time in the future), and...
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