Download or read book An Only Child AND My Father's Son written by Frank O'Connor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes of O'Connor's autobiography. AN ONLY CHILD is the entrancing story of an Irish childhood and a youthful involvement in the Irish rebellion which leads to internment. In MY FATHER'S SON O'Connor is released after the Civil war to begin a turbulent career as a writer, sharing his life and loves in Dublin with characters as formidable as Yeats and Lennox Robinson.