Into the boreen with a blackthorn stick
four green fields and the Cliffs of Moher
The stonie working in Kilkenny marble
The priest from St Kieran's
following the precepts of the gospel
storyteller from Kerry
gathering his flock in a cosy pub
the family in the farmhouse
saying the rosary together
Danny boy and the Derry air
George Best kicking a ball in Belfast
Samuel Beckett playing cricket
James Joyce in exile in Trieste
W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
Stephen Roche and Flann O'Brien
sharing molecules on a bicycle
Michael Coady and Carrick-on-suir
Christy Hennessy's messenger boy
Patrick Kavanagh and the Green Fool
Connemara and Clare, Donegal hills
learning Irish in a summer school
Angela's Ashes and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
I think that's everyone mentioned except
Brian Boru and Pangur Ban the cat.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
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