J donald hughes biography of rory
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J. P. Donleavy
Novelist, playwright, essayist
James Patrick Donleavy (23 April 1926 – 11 September 2017) was an American-Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright.[1] His best-known work is the novel The Ginger Man, which was initially banned for obscenity.
Early life
[edit]Donleavy was born in Brooklyn, to Irish immigrants Margaret and Patrick Donleavy, and grew up in the Bronx. His father was a firefighter, and his mother came from a wealthy background.[2][3] He had a sister, Mary Rita, and a younger brother.[4][5] He received his education at various schools in the United States, then served in the US Navy during World War II.[1] After the war ended, he moved to Ireland. In 1946 he began studying bacteriology at Trinity College Dublin, but left in 1949 before taking a degree.
Career
[edit]Donleavy's first published work was a short story entitled A Party on Saturday Afternoon, which appeared i
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Nicholas Wright (42-50)
Born 20 March 1932, died 30 September 2016, aged 84
By the time Nick retired in 1992, numbers were down to 200. He did not approve of the present situation where it is increasingly difficult to get psychiatric patients admitted to hospital, where hospitals can be many miles from their home and where patients are often moved from one hospital to another. He also regretted the frequent changes in consultant that patients now experience. Nick was the first visiting psychiatrist to HM Prison, Winchester. His expertise, coupled with a tydlig förståelse of thought and expression, brought him a large medico-legal practice and he featured in many high-profile murder trials. He also served on the Parole Board where
Nick became a consultant psychiatrist. He joined the school in Penrith in the Middle School. I have a vivid memory of him romping around with the spirited glee and bright intelligent eyes that remained with him all his life. But we were also aware of a shadow. He
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Notions and Nature
Environmental history emerged as a corrective measure against the historiographical tendency to emphasize human ideas at the expense of material and nonhuman factors. Nevertheless, early environmental history, such as the works by Donald Worster and Carolyn Merchant, stressed how attitudes towards nature not only affect our way of treating the environment but also have a history of their own. J. Donald Hughes therefore classed the history of ideas as one of the main themes in environmental history.
All environmental historians are aware of the role that the very concepts of nature, wilderness, and the frontier have played in history, especially in the United States, but the role of ideas does not stop there. The thematic collection Notions and Nature therefore focuses on ideas, cultural patterns, concepts, discourses, imaginaries, ideologies, and written works that in different ways play a role in human–environment interaction all over the world. The collectio