Peter Lennon was born in Dublin and reported from Paris for the Guardian throughout the sixties. During the seventies he worked in London on the Sunday Times and the Listener before rejoining the Guardian in 1989. He has had short stories published in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. His film Rocky Road to Dublin, which he wrote and directed, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival of 1968. He is married with two grown children.

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In 1967 Peter Lennon argued in his celebrated documentary, "Rocky Road to Dublin", that Ireland needed liberating from the Irish. Thirty seven years later, Ireland is ready to hear the message.