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Gerald Hanley (17 February 1916 – 7 September 1992) [1] was an Irish novelist and travel writer and was born in Liverpool of Irish parents. Hanley's novels reflect his experiences of living in Africa, Burma and the Indian sub-continent, as well as his life as a soldier.
May 9, 2021 · Warriors is Gerald Hanley’s account of his experiences during the Second World War when he was posted to Somalia as an officer with the King’s African Rifles. Somali friends have described it to me as the best book about Somalia written by a foreigner.
Gerald Hanley was, like many Irish writers, fascinated by the influence of the British in the most distant parts of the world, by the mixture of missionary and conqueror, of good intentions...
Jun 28, 2021 · The adventurous 23-year-old Gerald Hanley joined Britain’s campaign against fascist Italy in East Africa, where the latter brutally seized Ethiopia to form a dominion with the Eritrean and Somali lands already under their control.
Jan 23, 2017 · It was here that Gerald Hanley spent the Second World War, charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote outstation. Rations were scarce, pay infrequent and his detachment of native soldiers near-mutinous.
Gerald Hanley was born in Cork in 1916. He wrote seven books, including The Year of the Lion (1953), The Journey Homeward (1961) and Gilligan’s Last Elephant (1962) which was made into a film in 1967. He also contributed to the screenplay of The Blue Max (1966).
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Sep 25, 1992 · Gerald Hanley, an Irish novelist whose days in Africa inspired "The Consul at Sunset" and other books depicting the decline of the British Empire, died on Sept. 7. He was 76 years old.
