Among the Flutterers
Colm Tóibín: The Pope Wears Prada, 19 August 2010
The Pope Is Not Gay
by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy ClarkGiuliani.
Verso, 181 pp., £8.90, June 2010,978 1 84467 474 9 Show More
by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy ClarkGiuliani.
Verso, 181 pp., £8.90, June 2010,
“... In 1993 John McGahern wrote an essay called ‘The Church and Its Spire’, in which he considered his own relationship to the Catholic Church. He made no mention of the fact that he had, in the mid-1960s, been fired from his job as a teacher on the instructions of the Catholic archbishop of Dublin because he had written a novel banned by the Irish Censorship Board (The Dark), and because he had been married in a register office ... ”
