Download or read book The Burning of Brinsley MacNamara written by Padraic O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author who so enraged his Westmeath rural Irish neighbors with his novel, The Valley of the Squinting Windows, that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated, and his father, a local schoolteacher, driven into exile. A fascinating study of mass censorship at its worst.