Brian Keenan (writer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brian Keenan (born 1950 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a British writer . His best-known work is the book An Evil Cradling , a story about his four and a half years hostage in Lebanon . Keenan, who taught at the American University in Beirut , was kidnapped in April 1986 by the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad , which had assumed responsibility for the attack on the US base in Beirut in 1983 . After two months without any contact with the outside world, Keenan was transferred to a cell that he had to share with the British journalist John McCarthy (* 1956). On August 24, 1990, he was freed by Syrian military forces and driven to Damascus , where representatives of the Syrian Foreign Ministry handed him over to the Irish ambassador, Declan Connolly.

Works

  • An Evil Cradling , 1991
  • Turlough , 1996
  • Between Extremes: A Journey beyond Imagination (with John McCarthy), 2000
  • Four-Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey , 2005
  • I'll Tell Me Ma , 2010

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Keenan, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast