Brian Keenan CBE (born 28 September 1950) is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990. [1] [2] Life.

Brian Paschal Keenan [1] (17 July 1941 [1] [2] [3] – 21 May 2008 [4]) was a member of the Army Council of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who received an 18-year prison sentence in 1980 for conspiring to cause explosions, and played a key role in …

Brian Edmund Peter Keenan (January 28, 1943 – October 5, 1985) was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the Chambers Brothers. Born in New York, he also lived in Conisbrough near Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, and Ireland as a child. Background.

Apr 12, 2016 · Pictured is writer Brian Keenan (previous winner 1990) launching The People of the Year Awards which are organised by Rehab and sponsored by QUINN-healthcare. The Awards ceremony will take place at Dublin's Citywest Hotel on Saturday, 11th September 2010, and will be televised live. Now in their 36th year, the Awards provide a unique ...

Brian Keenan: Prisoner Turned Writer - In April of 1986, an unknown university teacher from Belfast was seized by Muslim gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon. Nearly five years later, Brian Keenan re-emerged ...

May 22, 2008 · BRIAN KEENAN, who has died from cancer aged 66, was a key, ruthless IRA leader and strategist over the entire course of the Troubles who eventually brought hardline IRA members along with him to ...

Nov 7, 2004 · Yet Brian Keenan struggles to talk about the current hostage crisis in Iraq. Cole Moreton meets a man who has travelled to the ends of the earth to lay to rest the ghosts of his past.

Aug 24, 2023 · Brian Keenan is a Belfast-born Irish writer, formerly kidnapped and held hostage by fundamentalist Shi’ite militiamen in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1986, for four and a half years while he was teaching ...

May 24, 2008 · Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army’s long march from war to peace, died of cancer Wednesday, the Sinn Fein party announced in Dublin. He was 66.