Mick Rooney reads an extract from Gabriel Byrne's memoir, Walking with Ghosts (Mrs. Gordon).
In vivid, melodic prose, Irish actor Gabriel Byrne revisits his childhood in Ireland, a world that has long since been renovated by time, and juxtaposes these memories with scenes from later years, in which he develops and occupies that strange identity of movie star.
Impressionistic and sensual, Byrne's visions of home, of boyhood and adolescence, are gracefully interspersed with jump-cuts to pointedly unglamorous scenes from his life as he becomes an actor, as he becomes celebrated, as he becomes forever recognizable. Byrne is interested in exploring the pathos in what it means to be famous, in what it means to be praised when everything you’ve learned tells you that are not worthy of praise.
Reciting this memoir extract from Byrne's book, published by Grove Press, New York, Rooney is an author and journalist who grew up in the same Dublin locale in Dublin.
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