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Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too.
Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected discoveries in Irish and Australian archives which overturn some widely held views. She also draws on her own memories of meeting and interviewing Mannix to get to the essence of this man of contradictions, controversies and mystery.
Mannix is not only an astonishing new look at a remarkable life, but a fascinating depiction of Melbourne in the first half last century.
Brenda Niall is one of Australia's foremost biographers. She is the author of four award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. Brenda has degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Yale University and the Australian National University. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for 'services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic'. She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review.
‘Brenda Niall works up an engaging and fascinating portrait, seen through Mannix’s involvement in key political and religious controversies. For readers interested in the political and cultural life of Australia during the first half of the 20th century, Niall’s highly readable biography will reward handsomely.’ Books & Publishing
‘With characteristic insight, sensitivity, and tact, Niall confirms that Daniel Mannix is a major, if elusive, figure in the modern history of Australia, Ireland, and the Catholic Church…a balanced and convincing account of Mannix’s life and times.’ Australian Book Review
‘Brenda Niall’s central challenge was to uncover the personal face of Mannix from his public speeches…She does this modestly and penetratingly, raising questions and looking for consistencies and surprises.’ Catholic News
‘This is the best life of Mannix we have, superior to other attempts…Writing from inside the Melbourne Catholic experience, Brenda Niall shows how people’s affection for Mannix muted their criticisms of him—even if they knew better. This is one of the significant strengths of a rich book.’ Global Pulse
‘I should say that I expected to take my time over this biography, as I usually do, reading a chapter every other day. But not so, I could not put it down.’ ANZ LitLovers, blog
‘For my money, Brenda Niall’s Mannix is the most wise, shrewd and elegant biography yet produced of this complex and beguiling man. Niall’s irresistible prose strengthens the candour of this fine book.’ Age
‘Calmly magisterial…Niall gives a sense of Mannix’s greatness and of why we can still be awed by him.’ Australian
‘An extraordinary man and an extraordinary book.’ Weekly Times
‘Among living Australian biographers, only Philip Ayres matches Brenda Niall for painstaking research serving narratives at once spirited and judicious…Dr Niall ignores nothing.’ Spectator
‘A biography should not keep you from your chores or have you up past the bedtime to which you’ve become accustomed. That is what thrillers and detective yarns are for…Brenda Niall’s wonderful telling of the life of Daniel Mannix has broken that mould…This book is the work of a master of the art of biography…Gripping.' Irish Echo
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- Published on: 2015-03-25
- Released on: 2015-03-25
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Hated to finish this book... By MickeyD This book is stunning and you cannot put it down. I have read other books by Brenda Niall and she is a wonderfully human writer of non-fiction and a spectacular historian. She has a lightness of touch, humour and sympathy that is terrific and makes her books more like conversations.That said, the famous Archbishop of Melbourne was not particularly a subject of interest to me – but the reviews were good and so I thought I’d give it a go.It is riveting from beginning to end. Without being a total tragic here – I even read most of the footnotes. For anyone interested in Australian twentieth century history with a special focus on Victoria, Irish-Australian Catholic politics, the Labor Party split, Prime Ministers, Trade Unions, individuals – and no specialist knowledge of Irish history but enough background provided to have it all make sense – this book is fantastic.Incidentally Brenda Niall is intriguingly close to the subject matter. I could have had more on this, but even the bits I got were illuminating.You know this feeling? I felt so sad when I finished this book. I didn’t want to leave it. I felt like I knew all those people and now they’ve gone.Absolutely terrific read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Best of Many By brandon This is a masterly work. The author has the advantage of access to some new material and the benefit of over fifty years of hindsight. She is able to lay to rest some old ghosts such as the legend that John Wren gave Raheen to Mannix and introduce new ghosts such as the Archbishop's relationship to the enigmatic Fr Hackett. That said Mannix emerges as no less enigmatic than Hackett and even more obscure as a puzzle than in previous works where writers were certain of Mannix's sanctity. Other new material are the facts of his desire to introduce sex education into Catholic Schools and his understanding of the sexual curiosity of the young and adolescent. I had read once before that one of his great regrets is the way the Church treated strayed priests who had no choice but were excommunicated if they wished to leave and get married. In many ways he was a liberal, he was certainly a revolutionary which makes it all the more puzzling that he threw in his lot with the religiously arch conservative de Valera. A very easy book to read
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fresh view of a fascinating subject By Mouthforhire This is an accessible and readable story about a very interesting and and historically important subject for both Ireland and Australia. While his youth and family life is covered, the major focus begins in 1913 when Mannix came to Melbourne to become Archbishop. Despite being almost as far from Ireland as possible, he had a significant influence on Irish revolutionary politics and was banned from entering Ireland when he returned in 1920.The book also deals with his role in the "Split" in the Australian Labor Part in the 1950s.This story is easy to read but also clearly the subject of very extensive research.
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