Not topflight nor perfect, but it gives keen pleasure, some
chuckles and considerable enjoyment through most of its pages, this
autobiography of an Irish poet's early years, from childhood to
maturity in London. For background, he gives you the Ireland of
legend, the dark huts, wandering cobblers and beggars,
superstitious fears and beliefs against the power of the church. He
gives you too the fairs - both hiring and produce and animal fairs;
he gives you poets, farmers, drinkers, he gives you a sense of
isolation from world affairs even the World War. Experiences at
school, running away from home, apprenticeship to a cobbler father,
a first taste of modern writing, the arrogance of a first visit to
Dublin, his attitude towards other writers, towards his farmer
neighbors. You have all the facts of his life - but the charm lies
not in those but in the way of writing, which is distinctive.
(Kirkus Reviews)
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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