Author: John Doyle. Published by Double Day Canada, Toronto, ON., 2005, 1st Edition. Flat SIGNED by the Author on the title page. Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Like New Unclipped Dust Jacket. Features beautiful deckle-edged pages. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.75 inch, 321 pages including index.
A GREAT FEAST OF LIGHT, by John Doyle, is an illuminating true story of a boy and a country transformed by television, that is funny, insightful, and always engaging!
The Globe and Mail’s celebrated critic John Doyle was born in the small Irish town of Nenagh in 1957; his father purchased the family’s first television set in 1962. By day, John was schooled by the Christian brothers in the valour of Irish rebel heroes and the saintliness of Catholic martyrs. But in the evenings, television conveyed more subversive messages. As the 1960s and 70s wore on, television introduced the dreams and the actions of the American civil rights movement to Ireland. When the Catholics of Ulster adopted the practices of marching and peaceful protest, television transmitted their clashes with the police, and later with the British army, directly into the Doyles’ home — and broadcast them far beyond as well. It pointed John in the direction of a wider world, inspiring his hopes for the future just as it yanked Ireland out of its past.
