An Only Child & My Father's Son

The first two volumes of O'Connor's autobiography. 'An Only Child' is the entrancing story of an Irish childhood and a youthful involvement in the Irish rebellion which leads to internment. In 'My Father's Son' O'Connor is released after the Civil war to begin a turbulent career as a writer, sharing his life and loves in Dublin with characters as formidable as Yeats and Lennox Robinson.