Lin Rose Clark
LIN ROSE CLARK: ROBERT HILLIARD BIOGRAPHY
SWIFT BLAZE OF FIRE: THE LIFE OF ROBERT HILLIARD: oLYMPIAN, CLERIC, BRIGADISTA (2025)
Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain left a dark shadow hanging over his family.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lin Rose Clark was a teacher and a civil servant before becoming a writer. She has a BA in English Literature from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. This book, shortlisted in 2017 as a work-in-progress for the Biographers' Club's Tony Lothian Prize, is her first full-length work of non-fiction.
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