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	Brian Keenan (hostage) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about Brian Keenan, the former hostage, not Brian Keenan (activist), the Irish Republican Army leader and bomber.
		Keenan was born into a working class family in East Belfast.
		In the mid 1980s Keenan returned to the Magee College campus of the university.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Keenan_(writer/hostage) (228 words)

	Brian Keenan (hostage) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In April, 1986, while teaching at the American University of Beirut, Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad.
		After spending several months in isolation, he was moved to a cell shared with the British Catholic journalist John McCarthy.
		Brian Keenan (hostage), External links, See also, 1951 births, Living people, Hostages, Natives of Belfast and Northern Ireland writers.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Brian_Keenan_(writer/hostage) (233 words)

	Brian Keenan, pianist-composer
		Pianist-composer Brian Keenan is a voice to be reckoned with and will surely make himself heard as we cross over into a new century of ragtime.
		BRIAN KEENAN was born into a very musical family December 31, 1971, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
		"[Brian Keenan is] on the ground floor of this new strand of ragtime...he's among the nation's youngest practicioners of an oft-overlooked and misunderstood niche..."
	www.viridianaproductions.com /brian_keenan.htm (678 words)

	RTE Television - The Afternoon Show
		Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1986 for a break from his native Belfast.
		As a teacher in the American College in Beirut, Brian Keenan was taken hostage by a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist group in 1986.
		Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began when he was a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school.
	www.rte.ie /tv/theafternoonshow/story/1029239.html (374 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on An Evil Cradling at Epinions.com
		Brian Keenan was raised in an Ireland full of troubles, sectarian values were abound and he was himself troubled by the futility of the young people dying for a cause they understood little about, indoctrinated by narrow-minded parents and peers.
		Brian was later to reflect on the absurdity of his captors hero worship of the American anti-hero types like “Rambo”, a character that many of them emulated both in the way they dressed and in the array of weapons they carried about their person.
		Brian estimates that he was moved from hell-hole to hell-hole around seventeen times during his captivity, and the way they moved him was the most frightening thing.
	www.epinions.com /content_133761306244 (983 words)

	Alumni in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian became concerned when he realized that he did not want to do clinical social work and needed to find another avenue in the field of social work that would appeal to him.
		Brian was also responsible for the development and management of Project Rebuild, a construction-training program for formerly homeless persons in conjunction with The New York City Building Trades Council.
		Brian eventually moved to New Jersey and worked on a number of additional housing projects receiving a certificate in community development from the Pratt Institute and an MBA from St. Peter's College.
	www.molloy.edu /alumni/alumniofthemonth/april05.htm (672 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 24 \| 1990: Irish hostage released in Lebanon
		The release of Brian Keenan is being credited to negotiation by Iran on behalf of Ireland with the kidnappers in the Lebanon.
		Mr Keenan is expected to be handed over to the Irish foreign minister by his Syrian counterpart at a ceremony in Damascus on Saturday morning.
		In 1996 Brian Keenan teamed up with John McCarthy to make a journey to Patagonia in south America that they had dreamed about during their captivity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/24/newsid_2511000/2511857.stm (359 words)

	Kukui Roadhouse: 4/11/86 Brian Keenan Hostage
		Brian Keenan, teacher at the University of Beirut, was the hostage selected for release.
		The Islamic Republic News Agency said the hostage to be freed was likely to be Brian Keenan, an Irish national held since April 1986.
		Keenan argued with his captors to let him stay with McCarthy as they took him away from his prison in a Beirut basement.
	www.mahk.com /sc1554.htm (312 words)

	Charges against DA's son dropped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That could mean District Attorney Keenan will have to decide whether to prosecute drunken drivers who are stopped for the same reasons that were ruled to be illegal in her son's case.
		Harry Holmes, a Longmont attorney who frequently works on DUI cases, said he believes Keenan got a lucky break but said that does not mean the district attorney should stop prosecuting such cases just because her son was let off.
		Brian Keenan and his defense attorney, Jeanne Winer, were unavailable for comment.
	www.broomfieldenterprise.com /news/local/26adui.html (817 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Special \| Have Your Say Special \| Viewpoint: A hostage's story
		Brian Keenan is a remarkable individual to be able to report so objectively.
		Keenan's assertion that his captors just "want to heard" indecently shifts the blame for the torture that he and others have suffered at the hands of these Muslim terrorists to everyone (apparently the West) but the Muslims themselves.
		Brian Keenan is to be deeply respected for his ability to report in such a balanced and insightful manner after the horrors of his incarceration...
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/special/islam/3080590.stm (4681 words)

	skoool.ie :: exam centre
		Keenan's own thoughts and feelings are interspersed in the book with those of others, in the form of poetry and sayings.
		Keenan is intent on drawing some deep philosophical insights about his captivity and learning more as a result.
		It tells of Brian Keenan's four and a half years in captivity, of dreadful suffering and humiliation at the hands of his Lebanese captors and of awful degradation of both mind and body.
	www.skoool.ie /skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=339 (1115 words)

	Brian Keenan: a man of excellence from the Sue Knight Partnership - making sure the valuable tool of NLP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian Keenan need not have worried; even the wind held it's breath to create the silence that allowed every one of his words to touch and move everyone in the group.
		Brian honestly and generously allowed us to explore with him his strategies, past, present and future.
		Brian Keenan embodies every one of these goals and has done so in the sort of circumstances in which every thread of identity and belief is torn and stretched to its point of collapse.
	www.sueknight.co.uk /Publications/Articles/Brian_Keenan.htm (475 words)

	Ruling is light on justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, the 28-year-old suspect is the son of Mary Keenan, Boulder County's new district attorney.
		In November, Brian Keenan's attorney asked the judge to suppress all evidence stemming from the arrest.
		The judge ruled that Keenan's license plate was clearly visible in the deputy's headlights, so there were no grounds for a traffic stop.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/talbott/30lclin1.html (587 words)

	COMPACT DISC REVIEW
		Keenan’s love for Tichenor’s works is palpable and his interpretations are definitive, definitely the ones to beat.
		Forrest County, Keenan’s nod to the lyrical folk romanticism of Roberts, is captivating.
		Keenan’s playing is even, with good use of dynamics, and accuracy is a hallmark.
	www.ragtimers.org /reviews/KeenanTraditions.htm (531 words)

	Kilkenny Arts Festival 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian Keenan is not letting the world forget.
		Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950.
		Keenan's book, An Evil Cradling, is his account of being held hostage.
	www.kilkennyarts.ie /lit3.shtml (171 words)

	Late Night Live - 12/12/2000: Brian Keenan
		While being held hostage, Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan, the 17th Century blind Irish harper.
		Either Keenan invented Turlough from his imagination or he was visited by Turlough; he's not certain, but his imaginary figure became very real and in a sense saved him.
		After his release, Brian Keenan researched the life of O'Carolan for two years and his novel, "Turlough" is both a recreation of an extraordinary historical story and the honoring of a commitment he made to himself in his Beirut cell to somebody who saved his sanity.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lnl/s222941.htm (167 words)

	No Ordinary Joe - News
		To understand Keenan’s seeming nonchalance to all delays, one has to appreciate his motive for initiating the project, and that it was not simply that he wanted to see himself up there on the screen with new features courtesy of Ian Hart or Ben Affleck.
		Keenan held an Irish passport and was freed as a result of diplomatic efforts and relentless campaigning by his sisters.
		Brian Keenan and John McCarthy’s incarceration in Lebanon can be seen as a physical metaphor for their inner emotional captivity, which, in the course of the film, they uncover and learn to transcend.”
	www.angelfire.com /biz5/beeswing/newsfeb03.html (1850 words)

	DA's daughter pleads not guilty to DUI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tanis Keenan was arrested Nov. 24 after police said she almost caused a head-on collision along Broadway before pulling over into a lot at Alpine Drive and 13th Street, where she struck a pole and backed into a police cruiser twice.
		Tanis Keenan, 32, consented to a blood test that determined her blood-alcohol content to be 0.123, according to police.
		Mary Keenan said in November her daughter had been battling an alcohol addiction for some time and sought treatment after her arrest.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/county/23lkeen.html (312 words)

	SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Brian Keenan (born 1951)
		In 1985 Keenan was abducted in Beirut by the Hezbollah militia and held as a hostage in their war against the Israeli occupation of the Lebanon and the United States government's support for same.
		During his imprisonment Keenan was chained, blindfolded, beaten and assaulted in secret locations in the Lebanon, South Beirut, Baalbeck and near the Israeli border.
		Keenan was released on August 24th, 1990 and his account of his captivity, An Evil Cradling, was published in 1992 and a novel Turlough about O'Carolan, the 17th century blind Irish harpist, was published in 2001.
	www.searcs-web.com /keenan2.html (236 words)

	Observer Newspaper - Sports
		When Keenan and Knott meet in Sunday's interhall football final at Notre Dame Stadium, it will be the first time the two powerhouse teams have ever played each other.
		Despite the impressive records of Knott and Keenan over the past three years — the two teams have only lost a combined seven games — both teams are approaching Sunday's game with a tremendous amount of respect for their opponent.
		The only blemish on Keenan's record was a loss last season to Sorin in the first round of last year's playoffs, but that doesn't take away from Keenan's impressive history.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/11102000/Sports/5.html (685 words)

	Brian Keenan, Pianist/Composer
		Brian Keenan is one of a group of composer/pianists who are exploring syncopated piano repertory of North and South America and taking it in exciting new directions.
		Keenan's own compositions make use of these idioms and, together with the inspiration from his Minnesota river country heritage, make him a significant figure in this movement of new Romantic piano literature.
		Brian Keenan have not only contributed significant pieces to American piano literature but have established a new cultural context for this music."
	www.johnroachemusic.com /keenan.html (396 words)

	Minnesota Public Radio Music presents Sounds Irish - "Harper's Bizarre"
		In writing Turlough (available at Amazon.co.uk), Brian Keenan repays what he calls a "debt of honor" to Turlough O'Carolan for sustaining him as a hostage in Beirut in the late '80s.
		Keenan is a quiet, convivial, intelligent man with a gift for telling his story—which, he told me, is Carolan's story.
		All Keenan had at his disposal were the power and imagery of his own mind.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/soundsirish/article.shtml (772 words)

	RSA - Lectures - Event Details
		Brian Keenan, author of An Evil Cradling and Four Quarters of Light in conversation with John Dolan, of Birmingham Libraries.
		Brian Keenan’s life has taken a series of extraordinary twists and turns.
		For armchair travellers, this is a superb evocation of a fantastical landscape, and reveals Brian’s qualities as a writer able to appreciate the qualities of both mankind and nature.
	www.rsa.org.uk /events/detail.asp?eventID=1742 (174 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE harrowing story of Belfast-born Beirut hostage survivor, Brian Keenan, is featured in a new movie, recently screened at the London Film Festival.
		Keenan was inundated with requests from television and film companies to tell his story, when he was released from captivity.
		Keenan is played by Ian Hart, and Linus Roache stars as McCarthy.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=464278 (255 words)

	Film Review: Blind Flight
		Brian Keenan was locked in fetid rooms outside and in Bierut for four-and-a-half years.
		It is a brave decision by the filmmakers to record Keenan and McCarthy's experience entirely from their perspective.
		He epitomises Keenan's bloody-mindedness and conviction to a higher truth that concerns the dignity of the human spirit, rather than anything remotely religious.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/b/blind_flight_2003.shtml (471 words)

	CD Baby: BRIAN KEENAN: River Bluffs - from ispace
		Compositions written by Brian Keenan, as well as performances by other New Ragtime and Terra Verde artists, representing a new cultural direction in piano-based music.
		Brian Keenan is a major Minnesota composer and performer of Ragtime music of the past and present.
		Brian's introspective compositions are at the forefront of this exciting cultural movement.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/i216_106915/from/ispace (701 words)

	Pavel Bure Fan Club News for November 1998
		Burke and Keenan do have a problem in that the coach has been complaining about his injuries and lineup depth, which the general manager feels is wrong.
		Keenan noted that Alexander Mogilny and Todd Bertuzzi are injured, and then slyly lobbed the hot potato back in Burke's court, if we're permitted one last mangled metaphor.
		With Brian Burke and Dave Nonis in New York for the NHL general managers meetings and both slated to be in attendance at the Islanders game Monday night, there was mountains of speculation a Pavel Bure for Zigmund Palffy deal was being discussed.
	www.pbfc.org /Oldnews/nov98/nov98.html (13093 words)

	Brian Keenan - Irish author who survived five years of hostage hell - 11-05-2004 - Radio Prague
		My guest today has, without any exaggeration, been to hell and back: Brian Keenan was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 by the militant group Islamic Jihad and held hostage in the most appalling conditions for almost five years.
		Mr Keenan, who comes from Belfast, won a great deal of respect and admiration for the way he documented his terrible experiences in his book "An Evil Cradling".
		When he was in Prague last weekend promoting the Czech version of the book, I spoke to Brian Keenan in the dining room of his hotel.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/53745 (1429 words)

	the story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The play is inspired by the true story of Brian Keenan from Norther Ireland, who was kidnapped in 1986 shortly after taking up his position as a lecturer of English at the American University in Beirut.
		When Brian Keenan was released he said that to leave behind his co-hostage was 'like losing an arm'.
		Brian Keenan, after his release, published his story in a book.
	www.tu-chemnitz.de /stud/freizeit/tcup/someone/story.html (205 words)

	Brian Keenan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian P. Keenan was born into a very musical family December 31, 1971 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
		Brian has performed on local television in the Twin Cities area and has been a featured performer at the Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and for the Classic Ragtime Society in Indianapolis.
		In addition to 45 ragtime-based piano solos, Keenan's works include a "Piano Concertino, Magnificat" for chorus and organ, and "Three Songs on Ancient Chinese Texts" for soprano and chamber ensemble.
	www.ragtime.nu /keenan.htm (292 words)

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