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Fri 12 Dec 2008Master of culture and controversy
OBITUARY:THE DEATH has taken place of Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien at the age of 91 after a distinguished career in public life as a diplomat, politician, government minister, writer, newspaper editor, critic and scholar.
Born in Dublin on November 3rd, 1917, Conor Cruise O'Brien, an only child whose father died when he was 10, represented the fusion of two extraordinary intellectual and political traditions: the Cruise O'Briens and the Sheehys. His father was Francis Cruise O'Brien, a freethinking journalist, and his mother was Kathleen Sheehy, sister of Hannah Sheehy Skeffington.
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