Dave Hannigan: ‘Backward baboons’ booed Ronnie Delany in art and in life
By Dave Hannigan••The Irish Times
The fact his nationality and Olympic achievement are the stuff of a serious work of literature shows the stardom the late Dubliner once enjoyed in the US
Theres a moment in Irvin Fausts novel Newsreel, set in post-second World War New York, when the protagonist Speed Firestone and his future wife Carla Levine are lamenting the parlous state of the cou…