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Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) [1] is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler 's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982.
Nov 11, 2022 · Arts & Culture. Literature. At 87, Thomas Keneally isn’t done with history yet. The Schindler’s List author is back with the fascinating story of Irish exile John Mitchel, whose tale shows that...
- Docherty 'Based on A Friend'
- A Priest Who Inspires and Alarms
- The Role of The Confessional
- So Why A Novel and Not A History of The Church?
Keneally based Docherty on his friend, Sydney priest Pat Connor, but says the fictional version is "less perfect than him". "I can now speak so freely about him because I can't hurt his reputation with bishops," Keneally says. "[Connor] thought social justice was the same as love, the love for which St Paul said was the First Commandment." By speak...
One parishioner, Maureen, is a young married woman trying to work out how to be a progressive Catholic. "Docherty asks her to obey her own informed conscience ... the Vatican not the final determinant," Keneally says. "Individual conscience is supreme in Frank's book. That is the biggest issue in the Catholic Church." Maureen and Docherty become fr...
In writing Crimes of the Father Keneally drew on the research of former Benedictine monk Richard Sipe, an expert on celibacy and its relationship to child abuse. That research found that the confessional has a place in the methods of the paedophile priest, opening up often confusing conversations for children about sins of the flesh. Disconcertingl...
"Fiction hath charms — that's all I have to say," he says. "You're telling truth through lies. But they are true lies, the lies of fiction. They're authentic lies. You still depend on absolute reality."
- Schindler’s List Thomas Keneally.
- The Daughters of Mars Thomas Keneally, Tom Keneally.
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Thomas Keneally.
- A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia Thomas Keneally.
Jun 18, 2004 · At last he found someone. Thomas Keneally tells how he stumbled on the story that became Schindler's List.
The Lord Lieutenant was chief executive of Britain’s most ungovernable kingdom but also the British monarch’s representative, and the centre and apogee of Irish society. In the bright July of 1833, the Lord Lieutenant happened to be a friendly and reckless 73-year-old womaniser named Richard Colley Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington.
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Feb 11, 2023 · Man (31) charged with murder of Mary Ward (22) in Belfast. At 87, with more than 50 books to his name, the author is not a man to take things slowly, and the chat comes quick and fast.
