Burning Heresies : A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020
by Kevin Myers
ISBN: 9781785372612
Published: 2020
In this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media, from the European conflicts he reported from to the personal conflicts he fought. Fresh from the horrors of 1970s Belfast, Myers landed a job in 1979 with The Irish Times, and brilliantly evokes the comical chaos of life in the smoky newsroom of the paper-of-record. Having taken over An Irishman's Diary, Myers single-handedly pioneered the campaign to rehabilitate the memory of the forgotten Irish soldiers of the Great War, and in the process fell foul of the paper's editor, the legendary Douglas Gageby. His rewards were plane tickets to more perilous consignments as Myers was back reporting from the terrifying frontline of European warzones, as communism falls and civil wars emerge. While Myers's is at his brilliant best dodging bombs and bullets on the battlefields of Tel Aviv, Beirut and...
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