Brian Keenan

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Brian Keenan is an Irish writer and former hostage best known for his memoir "An Evil Cradling," which recounts his four-year captivity in Lebanon in the 1980s.

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instanceOf former hostage
human
memoirist
awardReceived Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize
Irish Times Literary Award
Time-Life P.E.N. Award
coAuthor John McCarthy
countryOfBirth Northern Ireland
countryOfCitizenship Ireland
countryOfDetention Lebanon
dateOfBirth 1950-09-28
durationOfDetention approximately four years
educatedAt Orangefield Boys' Secondary School
University of Ulster
linked to: Ulster University
employer Trinity College Dublin
University of Ulster
linked to: Ulster University
endTimeOfDetention 1990
fieldOfWork autobiographical writing
literature
genre memoir
non-fiction
hasOccupationHistory English teacher in Beirut
hasWrittenAbout Middle East
captivity
human resilience
political violence
languageOfWorkOrName English
laterReligion Catholicism
nationality Irish
notableFor being held hostage in Lebanon
notableWork An Evil Cradling
Between Extremes
Turlough
linked to: Vislor Turlough
occupation teacher
university lecturer
writer
participantIn Lebanon hostage crisis
placeOfBirth Belfast
placeOfWork American University of Beirut
religion Presbyterian background
residence Belfast
Ireland
sharesDetentionWith John McCarthy
Terry Waite
other Western hostages in Lebanon
spouse Eve Patten
startTimeOfDetention 1986
subjectOf An Evil Cradling

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