Denis Johnston: A Life Rare and Limited Editions Self-exiled to Bath in England

Self-exiled to Bath in England with his housekeeper during the 1970s

and edited NATO's monthly review from 1958 to 1963

and find resolution in this masterly and consoling narrative

Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude

Denis Johnston: A Life Rare and Limited Editions Self-exiled to Bath in EnglandThis is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born into Edwardian Dublin, where he was briefly held hostage in his family home at Lansdowne Road during the 1916 Rising. Son of a Supreme Court judge, he was schooled at St Andrews in Dublin, in Edinburgh and Christs College,