O'Hare, Brian

PERSONAL:

Married; children: three. Education: University College Dublin, B.A.; University of Ulster, M.A., Ph.D. Religion: Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Golf, chess, reading, travel.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

CAREER:

Newry and Mourne Institute of Further and Higher Education, Newry, Ireland, assistant director, until 1998. Worked in education for thirty-eight years, specializing in youth training and adult education.

WRITINGS:

Youth Training in France, Germany, and Holland, Department of Education for Northern Ireland, 1981.

The New FE: Enhancement of Quality, Department of Education for Northern Ireland, 1985.

The Excluded Adolescent, Youthaid/University of Ulster, 2003.

A Spiritual Odyssey: Diary of an Ordinary Catholic, Columba Press (Blackrock, Ireland), 2005.

Also author of reports for the Northern Ireland department of education. Contributor of numerous articles to academic journals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Brian O'Hare told CA: "My early writing grew naturally out of my academic work. A Spiritual Odyssey: Diary of an Ordinary Catholic, was a response to a near miraculous cure for a life-threatening liver ailment. As a writer, I've learned that while style and structure are important, it is better not to agonise too much over them … to let the words flow naturally. As Hamlet admonished Polonius, ‘More matter with less art … ’ The future? Two new books completed, one currently with a New York publisher, the second yet to be submitted."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Irish Catholic (London), March 30, 2006, Anthony Redmond, review of A Spiritual Odyssey: Diary of an Ordinary Catholic.

Library Journal, June 1, 2006, Denise J. Stankovics, review of A Spiritual Odyssey: Diary of an Ordinary Catholic, p. 126.

Tablet (London), February 18, 2006, David McLaurin, review of A Spiritual Odyssey.

ONLINE

Columba Press,http://www.columba.ie/ (August 6, 2007), biography of Brian O'Hare.