The Green Fool

The Green Fool

Author
Patrick Kavanagh
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Language
English
Year
2001
ISBN
9780141190747
File Type
epub
File Size
1.8 MiB

My Part Of Ireland Had A Poet At One Time, A Poor Ragged Fellow Whom No Respectable Person Whom No Respectable Person Would Be Seen Talking To, But He Left Doors Open As He Passed. Time Hardly Mattered In The Village Of Mucker, The Birthplace Of Poet And Writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full Of Wry Humour, Kavanagh's Unsentimental And Evocative Account Of His Irish Rural Upbringing Describes A Patriarchal Society Surviving On The Edge Of Poverty, Sustained By The Land And An Insatiable Love Of Gossip. There Are Tales Of Schoolboy Skirmishes, Blackberrying And Night-time Salmon-poaching; Of Country-weddings And Fairs, Of Political Banditry And Religious Pilgrimages; And Of Farm-work In The Fields And Kicking Mares. Kavanagh's Experiences Inspired Him To Write Poetry Which Immortalized A Fast-disappearing Way Of Life And Brought Him Recognition As One Of Ireland's Great Poets.

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