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Kate O'Brien:
Social Historian
The Kate O'Brien Weekend
The
Hunt Museum,
Rutland Street, Limerick
St. Michael's Church,
Pery Square,
Limerick
27, 28 Feb & 1
March 1998
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Kate O'Brien
Kate O'Brien was born into a prosperous Limerick family in 1897.
She began her writing career in 1926 and Without
My Cloak, a novel written in 1930, was her first best seller.
Other works include The Ante Room, That Lady,
The Land of Spices and The Last of Summer.
Although frequently returning to Limerick, the inspiration for much
of her work, Kate O'Brien spent the latter part of her life in England.
She died in 1974.
The Kate O'Brien Weekend 1998
In 1984 Arlen House held a seminar in Limerick to mark the tenth
anniversary of Kate O'Brien's death, Arising from the success of this
event, the Kate O'Brien Committee was formed and it was decided to
hold an annual literary weekend in Limerick in honour of the city's
most famous deceased author.
The theme of the fourteenth Kate O'Brien Weekend is Kate
O'Brien: Social Historian.
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