{"product_id":"walking-with-ghosts-gabriel-byrne-9781529027457","title":"Walking With Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Destined to be a classic' Sunday Independent\n\u003cbr\u003e'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien\n\u003cbr\u003e'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' Washington Post\n\u003cbr\u003e'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm Toibin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, Gabriel Byrne harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled from an English seminary and he quickly returned to his native Dublin. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of '60s Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, often through the lens of addiction. Hilarious and heartbreaking Walking With Ghosts is a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriel Byrne","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176876769523,"sku":"9781529027457","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781529027457.jpg?v=1662090446","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/walking-with-ghosts-gabriel-byrne-9781529027457","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}