Nobody's BusinessNobodys Business: The Aran Diaries of Ernie OMalley presents new insights into the contradictions and complexities of the mind of Ernie OMalley, one of mid twentieth century Irelands foremost cultural critics. In 1941, 1955 and 1956, the former revolutionary leader and author of the acclaimed memoir of the War of Independence, On Another Mans Wound, visited the Aran Islands. While on the islands, OMalley kept diaries recounting his daily conversations

since 1757

largely written in the early 1970s

the assassination of his character and subsequent execution that will resound to the very depths of Anglo-Irish history

He is President of the Geographical Society of Ireland

the sacred and the secular

This haunting tale concerns the unravelling of private lives

Taking inspiration from his childhood fascination with football team formations

Growing up as a tea-planter’s daughter in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)

it reveals how

humourists and lyricists will be encountered

The story follows the family fortunes from middle-class comfort to genteel poverty as they moved to Dublin and became part of its literary and theatrical circles in the 1950s and 60s when her father Power O’Mara managed the avant-garde Globe Theatre Company

Despite his reputation as a gruff