Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he lives in England, Kermode calls himself "a Manxman," because he grew up on the Isle of Man, a small independent country situated between England and Ireland...
Armstrong's semiabstract paintings of Ireland's wild west coast sell for about $800 in Dublin and as much as three times that abroad...
Richard Condon Solitude, not tax relief, brought Novelist Condon and his wife Evelyn to Ireland in 1970 (as an American, he must pay U.S. taxes even though he lives abroad). A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million and has sold five novels (including The Manchurian Candidate) to Hollywood. Currently he is writing political novel No. 12, to be called Death of a Politician. In his salmon pink 19-room mansion in Kilkenny, Condon works on his potboilers seven hours a day, seven days a week for ten weeks at a stretch...
Condon claims that he was "spiritually conditioned to come to Ireland. Here the writer has the same status as priests...
Despite all its economic attractions, life in Ireland remains lonely and provincial, virtually bereft of the intellectual stimulation that goads most novelists and playwrights. Thus British Novelist Len Deighton (The Ipcress File; Billion Dollar Brain) maintains a residence in Ireland solely for tax purposes but spends most of his time in Portugal...