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Irishenglish writer iris murdochs long career as a novelist, playwright, critic and philosophy professor came to an end in the 1990s because of alzheimers disease. British writer and philosopher iris murdoch was born in 1919 in dublin to an english family. A severed head 1961later made into both a play and a filmtakes on jungian archetypes and freuds theories about masculine sexuality, while in the red and the green 1965, murdoch, in her only foray into historical fiction, delved into the 1916 easter rising in dublin. Primarily her novels focus on themes of morality, spirituality.
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