Today’s young novelists owe more to him than perhaps they realise.” He was not a ‘highbrow’, nor did he pretend to be, but certainly he was one of the media voices which from the 1970s onwards helped to lift fiction up again to its high place in the public’s notion of what literature is and should be. “Frank Delaney had a delightful and infectious love of books,” said author and former Irish Times literary editor John Banville, “and of the novel in particular. They go page by page through James Joyce's Ulysses, discussing its allusions, historical context and references. In 2004 he published his bestseller, Ireland, a Novel, and on Bloomsday 2010 he launched Re:Joyce, a series of short weekly podcasts which have been downloaded more than 2 million times. He moved to the United States in 2002, where he lived with his wife Diane Meier in Connecticut.
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