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Novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland

Brian Moore (bree-AN;^[2] 25 August &#;– 11 January ), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland^[3][4][5] who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.

He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel".^[6] He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in , and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in , and ).

Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.

Early life and education

Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings^[2] in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert.^[2] His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominent surgeon and an observant Catholic^[7] and his mother, Eileen McFadden Moore, a farmer's daughter from County Donegal,^[2] was a nurse.^[8][9] His uncle was the prominent Irish nationalistEoin MacNeill, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and Professor of Irish at University College Dublin.^[10]

Moore was educated at Newington Elementary School^[11] and St Malachy's College, Belfast.^[2][12] He left the college in , having failed his senior exams.^[7] The physical description of the school at the heart of The Feast of Lupercal matches closely that of Moore's alma mater and is widely held to be a lightly fictionalised setting of the college as he unfondly remembered it.

Wartime service and move to North America

Moore was a volunteer air raid warden during the Second World War and served during the Belfast Blitz in April and May He went on to serve as a civilian with the British Army in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war ended he worked in Eastern Europe for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

in he emigrated to Canada to work as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette, and became a Canadian citizen.

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Moore lived in Canada from to ,^[13] moving to New York in to take up a Guggenheim Fellowship^[2] and remaining there until his divorce in ^[2] He then moved to the west coast of the United States, settling in Malibu, California, with his new wife Jean.^[2] He taught creative writing at UCLA.^[14] While eventually making his primary residence in California, Moore continued to live part of each year in Canada up to his death.^[9]

Novels and themes

Moore wrote his first novels in Canada.^[13] His earliest books were thrillers, published under his own name or using the pseudonyms Bernard Mara or Michael Bryan.^[15] The first two of these pieces of pulp fiction, all of which he later disowned,^[16] were published in Canada by Harlequin – Wreath for a Redhead in March and The Executioners in July

Judith Hearne, which Moore regarded as his first novel and was the first he produced outside the thriller genre, remains among his most highly regarded.

The book was rejected by ten American publishers before being accepted by a British publisher.^[9] It was made into a film, with British actress Maggie Smith playing the lonely spinster who is the book/film's title character.^[9]

Other novels by Moore were adapted for the screen, including Intent to Kill, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, Black Robe, Cold Heaven, and The Statement.

He co-wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, and wrote the screenplay for The Blood of Others, based on the novel Le Sang des autres by Simone de Beauvoir.

Moore criticised his Belfast schooling through his novels The Feast of Lupercal and The Emperor of Ice-Cream.^[7]

Some of his novels feature staunchly anti-doctrinaire and anti-clerical themes, and in particular, he spoke strongly about the effect of the Church on life in Ireland.

A recurring theme in his novels is the concept of the Catholic priesthood. On several occasions, he explores the idea of a priest losing his faith. At the same time, several of his novels are deeply sympathetic and affirming portrayals of the struggles of faith and religious commitment, Black Robe most prominently.

Acclaim

Graham Greene said that Moore was his favourite living novelist,^[17] though Moore began to regard the label as "a bit of an albatross".^[18]

Personal life

Moore was married twice.

His first marriage, in , was to Jacqueline ("Jackie") Sirois (née Scully), a French Canadian^[5] and fellow journalist with whom he had a son, Michael (who became a professional photographer),^[19] in ^[20] They divorced in October and Jackie died in January ^[21] Moore married his second wife, Jean Russell (née Denney), a former commentator on Canadian TV,^[22] in October ^[21]

Moore's beachside house in Malibu, California was celebrated in Seamus Heaney's poem Remembering Malibu.^[2] Moore's widow, Jean, lived in the house until it was destroyed in in the Woolsey Fire.^[19]

Death

Brian Moore died at his Malibu home on 11 January , aged 77, from pulmonary fibrosis.^[9] He had been working on a novel about the 19th-century French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud.^[23] His last published work, written just before his death, was an essay entitled "Going Home".^[10] It was a reflection inspired by a visit he made to the grave in Connemara of his family friend, the Irish nationalist Bulmer Hobson.

The essay was commissioned by Granta and published in The New York Times on 7 February ^[10] Despite Moore's often conflicted attitude to Ireland and his Irishness, his concluding reflection in the piece was "The past is buried until, in Connemara, the sight of Bulmer Hobson's grave brings back those faces, those scenes, those sounds and smells which now live only in my memory.

And in that moment I know that when I die I would like to come home at last to be buried here in this quiet place among the grazing cows."^[10]

Legacy

In , the Creative Writers Network in Northern Ireland launched the Brian Moore Short Story Awards.^[24] The awards scheme continued until and is now defunct.^[25]

Moore has been the subject of two biographies: Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist () by Denis Sampson and Brian Moore: A Biography () by Patricia Craig.^[26]Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past () by Patrick Hicks provides a critical retrospective of Moore's works.

Information about the publishing of Moore's novel Judith Hearne, and the break-up of his marriage can be found in Diana Athill's memoir Stet ().^[27]

In , Moore arranged for his literary materials, letters and documents to be deposited in the Special Collections Division of the University of Calgary Library, an inventory of which was published by the University of Calgary Press in ^[28] Moore's archives, which include unfilmed screenplays, drafts of various novels, working notes, a volume journal (–), and his correspondence [1]Archived 1 March at the Wayback Machine, are now at The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at the University of Texas at Austin.^[29]

To mark the centenary in of Moore's birth, a project − Brian Moore at − funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, sought to re-appraise his work, and revive scholarly and public interest in it.

The project included a programme of research, public-facing events and an international academic conference.^[30]

In an Ulster History Circleblue plaque was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Belfast, close to where Moore was born.^[31]

Prizes and honours

Bibliography

Non-fiction and essays

Novels

Short story collections

Short stories

• "Sassenach", Northern Review 5 (October–November )
• "Fly Away Finger, Fly Away Thumb", London Mystery Magazine, 17, September [3]: reprinted in Haining, Peter (ed.) Great Irish Tales of Horror, Souvenir Press ; and reprinted in Moore, Brian.

  The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books.

• "The Specialist", Bluebook, March ^[39]
• "Enemies of the People", Bluebook, May ^[39]
• "The Ridiculous Proposal", Bluebook, January ^[39]
• "A Vocation", Tamarack Review 1 (Autumn ): 18–22; reprinted in Threshold 2 (Summer ): 21–25; reprinted in Garrity, Devin A (ed.) The Irish Genius, ().

  New York: New American Library, pp.&#;–; reprinted for the Verbal Arts Centre project, ; and reprinted in Moore, Brian. The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books.

• "Lion of the Afternoon", The Atlantic, November ; reprinted in Pacey, Desmond (ed.) A Book of Canadian Stories ().

  Toronto: Ryerson Press, pp.&#;– and reprinted in Moore, Brian. The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books

• "Next Thing was Kansas City", The Atlantic, February
• "Grieve for the Dear Departed", The Atlantic, August ; reprinted in Pudney, John (ed.) Pick of Today's Short Stories, no.

  12, (). London: Putnam, pp.&#;– and reprinted in Moore, Brian. The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books

• "Uncle T", Gentleman's Quarterly, November ; reprinted in Two Stories, see above and reprinted in Moore, Brian. The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). Turnpike Books
• "Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge", Midstream 7 (Winter ); reprinted in Montague, John and Kinsella, Thomas (eds.) The Dolmen: Miscellany of Irish Writing (), Dublin: Dolman, pp.&#;1–7; reprinted in Richler, Mordecai (ed.), Canadian Writings Today, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, pp.&#;–; reprinted in Two Stories, see above and reprinted in Moore, Brian.

  The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books

• "Hearts and Flowers", The Spectator, 24 November ; reprinted in Moore, Brian. The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books
• "Off the Track", Weaver, Robert (ed.) Ten for Wednesday Night, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., , pp.&#;–; reprinted in Giose Rimanelli, Giose; Ruberto, Robert (eds.) (), Modern Canadian Stories, Toronto: Ryerson Press, pp.&#;– and reprinted in Moore, Brian.

  The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories (). London: Turnpike Books

• "The Sight", Hone, Joseph (ed.) Irish Ghost Stories, London: Hamish Hamilton, , pp.&#;–; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) Black Water, Picador ; reprinted in Manguel, Alberto (ed.) The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories.

  Toronto: Oxford University Press

• "A Bed in America" (unpublished; later used in Hitchcock film Torn Curtain)
• "A Matter of Faith" (unpublished)

Playscripts

Screenplays

Other films based on Brian Moore's work

• Intent to Kill (), a film with a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, based on the novel written by Moore as Michael Bryan
• Uncle T (),^[44] a half-hour drama, with a script by Gerald Wexler, based on a short story by Moore
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (), a film with a screenplay by Peter Nelson, based on Moore's novel
• Cold Heaven (), a film with a screenplay by Allan Scott, based on Moore's novel
• The Statement (), a film with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, based on Moore's novel

Films about Brian Moore

• The Lonely Passion of Brian Moore ()[4],^[45] a documentary featuring Moore and looking at what inspired his work
• The Man From God Knows Where (), BBC Bookmark profile

Interviews

• Fulford, Robert.

  "Robert Fulford Interviews Brian Moore". Tamarack Review 23 (), pp.&#;5–18

• Dahlie, Hallvard. "Brian Moore: An Interview". Tamarack Review 46 (), pp.&#;7–29
• Sale, Richard. "An Interview in London with Brian Moore". Studies in the Novel 1 (Spring ), pp.&#;67–80
• Gallagher, Michael Paul.

  "Brian Moore Talks to Michael Paul Gallagher", Hibernia (10 October ), p.&#;18

• Cameron, Donald. "Brian Moore". Conversations with Canadian Novelists, 2. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada (), pp.&#;64–85
• Graham, John. "Brian Moore" in Garrett, George, ed., The Writer's Voice: Conversations With Contemporary Writers.

  New York: William Morrow and Company (), pp.&#;51–74

• Bray, Richard T., ed. "A Conversation with Brian Moore". Critic: A Catholic Review of Books and the Arts 35 (Fall ), pp.&#;42–48
• De Santana, Hubert.
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  "Interview with Brian Moore". Maclean's (11 July ), pp.&#;4–7

• Aris, Stephen. "Moore's Fistful of Dollars", The Sunday Times (October ), pp.&#;37
• Sharp, Rhoderick. "Brian Moore: an author in exile winning with the luck of the Irish", Glasgow Herald, 7 May , p.&#;7
• Parker, Geoffrey. An Interview with Brian Moore & Bernard MacLaverty, in Hearn, Sheila G.

  (ed.), Cencrastus No. 14, Autumn , pp.&#;2 – 4, ISSN&#;

• Crowe, Marie. "Marie Crowe Talks to Belfast Writer Brian Moore", in The Irish Press (21 June ), p.&#;9
• Christie, Tom. "Q&A with Brian Moore: The Mystical World of the Mystery,"^[46] Los Angeles Reader, 2 September , p22
• Meyer, Bruce and O'Riordan, Brian.

  "Brian Moore: In Celebration of the Commonplace", in In Their Words: Interviews With Fourteen Canadian Novelists. Toronto: House of Anansi Press (), pp.&#;–83

• Carty, Ciaran. "Ciaran Carty Talks to Brian Moore", Sunday Independent (2 June ), p.&#;14
• Adair, Tom. "The Writer as Exile", in Linen Hall Review, (), pp.&#;4–6
• Foster, John Wilson.

  "Q & A with Brian Moore", in Irish Literary Supplement: A Review of Irish Books (Fall ), pp.&#;44–45

• Haverty, Anne. "The Outsider on the Edge", in Sunday Tribune (3 November )
• O'Donoghue, Andy. "Dialogue", interview with Brian Moore on RTÉ Radio 1 (20 February )
• Battersby, Eileen.

  "No Faith, No Hope, But Clarity: Eileen Battersby in Belfast With the Novelist Brian Moore", Sunday Tribune, (27 April )

• Carlson, Julia., ed. "Brian Moore" in Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer. University of Georgia Press () ISBN&#;
• Christie, Tom. "An Irishman In Malibu: Novelist Brian Moore Has Left Behind His Homeland And Dodged Celebrity In Favor Of An Independent-minded And Highly Successful Literary Life", in Los Angeles Times (1 March )
• Ford, Nigel.

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  "An Interview With Brian Moore", on Bookshelf, BBC Radio 4 (5 March )

• O'Donoghue, Jo. "From the Abstract Sands: Interview with Brian Moore", in Books Ireland (November ), pp.&#;–71
• Battersby, Eileen. "Perennial Outsider", a full-page interview in The Irish Times (12 October )
• Rees, Jasper.

  "Novel ways to Miss the Booker Prize", in The Independent [UK] (23 September ), 'Eye' pp.&#;3–4

• Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore and Patrick Hicks", in Irish University Review Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn&#;– Winter, ), pp.&#;– (The last known interview with Brian Moore)
• Kilgallin, Tony. "Brian Moore: 'my real strength is that I am a truthful writer'" in The Irish Times, (5 January ) (Previously unpublished interview recorded in at Moore's home in Malibu)

Books and articles about Brian Moore and his work

• Athill, Diana.

  Stet: a memoir, London: GrantaISBN&#;,

• Craig, Patricia. Brian Moore: A Biography, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN&#;,
• Craig, Patricia. "Brian Moore: a writer who readily accepted the price of his refusal to be typecast", The Irish Times, 16 January
• Cronin, John. "Ulster's Alarming Novels", Eire-Ireland IV (Winter ), p.&#;27–34
• Cronin, John.

  "The Reslient Realism of Brian Moore". The Irish University Review. 18: 24–,

• Dahlie, Hallvard.
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• Dahlie, Hallvard. Brian Moore, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.,
• Flood, Jeanne. Brian Moore, Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses,
• Foster, John Wilson. "Passage Through Limbo: Brian Moore's North American Novels", Critique XIII (Winter ), pp.&#;5–18
• Foster, John Wilson.

  Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, , pp.&#;–; –

• Hicks, Patrick. "History and Masculinity in Brian Moore's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (Jul–Dec ), pp.&#;–
• Gearon, Liam.

  Brian moore novelist biography net worth: Moore, Brian (–99), novelist, was born 25 August at 11 Clifton Street, on a Belfast sectarian faultline; he was the fourth of nine surviving children of Dr James Bernard Moore, surgeon, and his wife Eileen (née MacFadden) a former nurse from Gweedore.

  "No other life: Death and Catholicism in the works of Brian Moore", Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol 19, No 1, pp.&#;33–46,

• Gearon, Liam. Landscapes of Encounter: The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian Moore, University of Calgary Press, ISBN&#;1 3
• Hicks, Patrick. "Brian Moore's The Feast of Lupercal and the Constriction of Masculinity", New Hibernia Review, Vol 5, No 3, pp.&#;–, Fómhar/Autumn [5]
• Hicks, Patrick.

  "The Fourth Master: Reading Brian Moore Reading James Joyce". Ariel. 38: 2–3., Apr–Jul

• Hicks, Patrick. "Sleight-of-Hand: Writing, History and Magic in Brian Moore's The Magician's Wife", Commonwealth Essays and Studies ["Postcolonial Narratives" Issue] 27, 2 (Spring ), pp.&#;87–
• Hicks, Patrick. Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past, Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., ISBN&#;, ISBN&#;,
• Koy, Christopher.

  "Representations of the Quebecois in Brian Moore's Novels", Considering Identity: Views on Canadian Literature and HistoryOlomouc: Palacký University Press, , pp.&#;–^[47]

• McSweeney, Kerry. Four Contemporary Novelists. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN&#;, , pp.&#;55–99
• O'Donoghue, Jo.

  Brian Moore: A Critical Study, Montreal and Kingston: McGill University Press,

• Prosky, Murray. "The Crisis of Identity in the Novels of Brian Moore", Eire-Ireland VI (Fall ), pp.&#;–
• Ricks, C. "The Simple Excellence of Brian Moore". New Statesman, 71: pp.&#;–,
• Sampson, Denis. "'Home: A Moscow of the Mind': Notes on Brian Moore's Transition to North America" in Colby Quarterly, vol.

  31, issue 1 (March ). pp.&#;46–54^[48]

• Sampson, Denis. Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist, Toronto: Doubleday Canada,
• Schumacher, Antje. Brian Moore's Black Robe: Novel, Screenplay(s) and Film (European University Studies. Series Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature. Vol. ), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

  Language: English ISBN&#;ISBN&#;,

• Spear, Hilda D., "Two Belfast Novels: An Introduction to the Work of Brian Moore", in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 31, August , pp.&#;33 – 37, ISSN&#;
• Sullivan, Robert. A Matter of Faith: The Fiction of Brian Moore, London and Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, ISBN&#;,
• Whitehouse, J.

  C. "Grammars of Assent and Dissent in Graham Greene and Brian Moore" in Whitehouse, J. C. (ed.) Catholics on Literature, Four Courts Press, ISBN&#;, , pp.&#;99–

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