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Joe Terry is the author of two novels: The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley (Published 2014) and The Undoing of Luke O’Reilly (Published 2014).Authors who have influenced his writing ...view moreJoe Terry is the author of two novels: The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley (Published 2014) and The Undoing of Luke O’Reilly (Published 2014).Authors who have influenced his writing include; American novelists; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, John O'Hara, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger and John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway; closer to home, George Orwell, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, John McGahern and William Trevor; and last but not least, Chinese writers, Han Suyin and Yiyun Li.Within earshot and view of the Celtic Sea, the second born of a family of ten, Joe came into this World in his parent’s farmstead bedroom in the parish of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.A month after the first ever US presidential TV debate in 1960, having purchased a third-class one-way ticket, Joe boarded the MV Innisfallen at Penrose Quay in Cork City for the nine hours voyage to Fishguard in Wales. He had not seen the TV debate between Kennedy and Nixon. He had yet to set eyes on a TV set.Coming from rural Ireland, the “bog”, even though he had never been in a bog, London was an eye-opener. Not everybody made the sign of the cross passing a Church, not everybody went to Church, Confessions were infrequent, not like in Ireland where Catholics were expected to confess their sins once a month; and under the threat of a mortal sin at least once a year. In London, not all men and women living together were husband and wife, as was the case in the parish of his birth. Many lived with other’s spouses. Many were divorced, legally separated; no longer bound to remain as a couple for the rest of their lives through sickness and sorrow. Gangsters, knuckledusters, teddy boys, winkle picker shoes and drainpipe trousers were all new to him.During the next ten years, Joe lived in London, Essex, Middlesex, Shropshire, Wilshire, Gloucester, Norfolk, Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides and Hong Kong from where he travelled to Borneo and Jahore in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.Throughout his life Joe has had a keen interest in sport and outdoor activities participation; Gaelic football, hurling, squash, swimming, walking and athletics.He a winner of Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association annual open cross-country and 5000 meters track championships. In Hong Kong, as mountain rescue volunteer, a particular occurrence had a profound effect on him when his team having rescued a group of deaf and mute children from a fog covered mountain, the appreciative rescued group, some time later, presented his mountain rescue team with a token award and sang a song of appreciation.Whilst an emigrant, Joe worked as a bartender, truck delivery assistant, hardware shop assistant, financial investments representative, interiors supplies representative, aerospace systems operator, and heating and ventilation fitter.Since returning to live In Ireland, and before retiring, he has worked as a ship building pipe fitter, and mostly as a self employed heating plumbing installations contractor; finally as a bathrooms supplies retail outlet proprietor.Joe now lives in Blarney, County Cork Irelandview less
Books by Joe Terry
The Undoing of Luke O’Reilly The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings