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Synopsis
Here, in the fourth book of the series "Scenes From An Examined Life", the author describes and recalls how he is delegated to deal with the requests of help by homeless people. While acting as door porter at the priory in a poor neighbourhood, his deep knowledge of homeless sub-culture opens a door that leads to a lifetime career. Four years' work as a government benefits officer is followed by an initiative to revive and save London's oldest free night shelter. In working with London's street homeless, the author encounters controversy on the questions charity poses: vis-à-vis demands for social justice and the need for new practical solutions on age old problems. Does charity reinforce dependence? All aspects of giving, such as money handouts, a bed for the night, soup runs, sandwich queues, begging, temporary shelters. This book challenges opinions that imply forms of charity that arguably bless they who give - not those who take. Is it all ultimately, tasks unfinished - dreams denied?
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About the Author
Anthony J. M. Brady was born in 1940 in London. He retired in 1994, having completed a career in local government as a Principal Officer Team Leader with the London Borough of Camden, from whose Social Services Department, he had been seconded to the Department of Health & Social Security (Resettlement Centres) for 15 years. In 1997, he moved to Northern Ireland and lives in Brockagh, Tempo, Co. Fermanagh. A Communitarian, he participates in part-time voluntary work involving social reconstruction, advocacy, renewal and reconciliation. His first writing in print was an essay in the London Chest Hospital Staff Magazine: Shakespeare and Medicine (1964). His first letter to a newspaper appeared in the Catholic Herald and this led to a series of polemical exchanges in its letter's page about the American/Vietnam War with the writer John Braine (1969/70). His first writing fee was for a book review: Caring on Skid Row by Anton Wallich-Clifford - the founder of The Simon Community, commissioned by The Catholic Herald (1974). Subsequently, (1981-1986) he had letters published in The Catholic Universe, Hackney Gazette, The Guardian, The East Ender, The East London Mercury and The Greenwich Mercury on topics such as Apartheid; Drug Addiction; Homelessness and social justice issues. Many of his letters on topical issues have appeared in The Fermanagh Herald and The Impartial Reporter. The Guardian printed four of his letters (1987-1990). One highlighted the threatened closure of a service for adolescent mentally ill people at The Maudsley Hospital; another two were arguments against reduction of hospital provision in London and the fourth objected to the euthanizing of the first person in England to have feeding methods legally withdrawn to assist his death. A Paper entitled: Helping the Resettled Person with a Relapsing Drinking Problem, was published by the Charity, Good Practices in Mental Health. ISBN 0 948445297 Tony began to send out creative work for the first time in 2003. A short story: 'Sister of Mercy' was published by the weekly magazine "Ireland's Own" and in 2004 an historical profile about Angela Burdett-Coutts: Queen of the Poor, was published by the bi-monthly magazine "Ireland's Eye". Both publications are popular in Ireland and the United States. Since 2003, he has had published (in anthology) numerous poems in various publications under the aegis of Forward Press: Anchor Books, Triumph House and New Poetry.
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