Desmond M. O'Grady
Desmond M. O'Grady was born on the 11 th December 1929; he is an Australian journalist, author and a playwright. He has lived and wor...
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Desmond M. O'Grady was born on the 11th December 1929; he is
an Australian journalist, author and a playwright. He has lived and worked in
Rome since the year 1962.
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Desmond M. O'Grady was born in the city of Melbourne Australia; he is the
son of Edward
O'Grady and Winifred (Kiernan) O'Grady. He attended his primary school at the
Good Shepherd Convent Melbourne. His father worked for the Navy of the country
and from the year 1940, Desmond M.
O'Grady attended the Marist Brothers in the city of Sydney and it was there
that his father was transferred to be in charge of the Naval Stores at Garden
Island Naval Base. He went back to complete his primary education at the Christian
Brothers in St. Kilda, Melbourne and it was there that he completed his
secondary education as well.
He played cricket as
a boy with the South Melbourne club and in his youth age as an opening batsman
for the national team of Italy.
Bibliography
Books
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Eat
from God’s Hand, Chapman, London 1965; St Paul, New York 1967 (non-fiction).
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A
Long Way from Home. Cheshire, Melbourne 1966 (stories)
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Deschooling
Kevin Carew, Wren, Melbourne 1974 (novel)
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Valid
for All Countries, UQP, Brisbane 1979 (stories)
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Raffaello!
Raffaello! Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1983 (biography).
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Caesar,
Christ and Constantine, OSV Huntington 1991 (history)
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Correggio
Jones and the Runaways, CIS, Melbourne 1995 (essays)
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The
Turned Card- Christianity Before and after the Wall, Loyola, Chicago, 1997.
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Rome
Reshaped, Continuum, New York 1999 (history)
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Beyond
the Empire, Crossroad, New York 2001 (history)
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Stages
of the Revolution: a biography of Raffaello Carboni of the Eureka Stockade.
HardieGrant, Melbourne 2004. Italian edition 2008, winner of the Calabria Prize
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The
Sibyl, the Shepherd and the Saint. Rome 2007 ( travel)
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Dinny
Going Down. Arcadia Melbourne 2007 ( novel )
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Tuscany
Antipodean-Style Florence 2010
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A
Word in Edgeways Melbourne 2010
