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SO LONG TO COOLANORAN

by Patrick J. O'Connor

Published by Oireacht Na Mumhan Books. 1st IRELAND. 2011

Slightly better than very good condition. Card wraps. B/w photos.

A few small foxspots to outer page edges. SIGNED by author, with dedication to a previous owner.

ISBN: 9780953389698
Stock no. 2140592

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Contents

  • Word-play, David Hayes
  • Off to Dublin in the Green
  • Word weaver, Margaret MacCurtain
  • Word-smith, Tom Jones Hughes
  • Rosmead
  • Willie Smyth from Tipp
  • Class of '67
  • First teaching cohort
  • National Library of Ireland
  • Earliest trip of a lifetime
  • Missives from Monaghan
  • The man from Ballinastick
  • Travels with Willie Murray
  • 'Townland of the Big Quay'
  • Pre-figuring Irish Studies, Padraig de Brun
  • Meeting with Esther
  • Fishing off Dalkey and landed stories
  • Encountering philologist Alan Bliss
  • Paddy goes to Dublin
  • Dublin landladies Evocation of Dublin places
  • Go West young man, go West!
  • Negotiation Leap Year
  • East and west of Galway
  • Lovely Leitrim
  • The man up from the Lough
  • Things fall apart
  • Dublin for a change of tack
  • Firhouse
  • Visitation
  • Night-hawk
  • Andrew Street camaraderie
  • Turning point and postal strike
  • Geography and conviviality in UCD
  • How the West was won
  • Realm of cartography
  • Kilcock
  • Thomond College Limerick
  • Work in progress
  • A traverse with the Poet Hartnett
  • Original of the species
  • Canada in an Orwellian year
  • Canadian traverses
  • My father's bicycle
  • Attrition of age
  • A week is a long time: I
  • A week is a long time: II
  • My father's funeral
  • Give it a year
  • So long to Coolanoran

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