Skelligs Sunset
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Skelligs Sunset

  1. 241 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Skelligs Sunset

About this book

Skelligs Sunset, a posthumous volume of work in English by Michael Kirby, is the final part in his trilogy of memoir, storytelling and poetry begun with Skelligside (1990) and Skelligs Calling (2003). This remarkable writer, farmer-fisherman and painter was born in May 1906 and died in April 2005. Aside from a three-year sojourn in the United States where he worked on the railroads during the Great Depression, he spent his lifetime in County Kerry. He also wrote eight books in Irish under the name Micheal Ua Ciarmhaic, and from his eyrie in Ballinskelligs bore witness to a world that changed so radically, from the age of the transatlantic cable to the era of the Internet. His lyric poems evoke the sea, wind and landscape of south Iveragh in all its natural beauty. The memoirs, beginning with his schooldays and concluding in his garden, describe characters from fellow storyteller Sean O Conaill to Dan of the Roads, and record night hauls at sea, superstitions, wedding customs, games, pastimes and petty sessions in the Portmagee courts. Folklore and tall tales of courtship, fortune-seeking, gypsy magic and homecoming depict characters from the peninsula and resonate with a piquant humour and imagination. Deep knowledge and a love of the local pervade Michael Kirby's writings. They remind the reader of the wonders and simpler joys in a life that he celebrated with such spirit.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. PREFACE
  5. FOREWORD
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. SCHOOLDAYS: TUG OF WAR IN THE CLASSROOM
  8. Voices of Valentia
  9. SEÁN Ó CONAILL: KING OF THE STORYTELLERS
  10. THE COURTING OF MOLL MOLLOY
  11. THE RED PETTICOAT
  12. Our First Forbidden Tryst
  13. Coinne
  14. COURTING COUPLES AND THE PARISH PRIEST
  15. A Bridal Morning
  16. HASTE TO THE WEDDING
  17. A Living Salmon
  18. STATIONS OF LIFE
  19. Ships that Pass
  20. GAMES AND PASTIMES OF MY BOYHOOD
  21. The Charming Beagle Hunting
  22. SILENCE! SILENCE IN THE COURT!
  23. When I Am Free
  24. THE TALE OF THE HAUNTED PIPER
  25. Wild Things
  26. MOUNTAINS: FROM CANUIG TO THE APPALACHIANS
  27. Yearning
  28. Miangas
  29. JERRY NO NAME
  30. The Fishing Witch
  31. Bathing Beauty
  32. PISEOGA: OLD SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS
  33. Sea Magic
  34. THE NIGHT HAUL AT BOLUS
  35. South Wind
  36. ‘PLEASE, MISTER, HOLD MY BABY …’
  37. Storm Petrel
  38. HUMPTY-DUMPTY
  39. Sea Secrets
  40. THE GIANT’S GRAVE AT COOM
  41. My Ship Sailed Without Me
  42. DAN OF THE ROADS
  43. Why the Storm?
  44. HEART ATTACK AND THE DRUNKEN BALLET DANCERS
  45. The Mountain Road
  46. MY GARDEN
  47. Ode to a Wren
  48. A PAINTING IS BORN
  49. Who Scattered the Stars?
  50. A GARDEN: IN THE WANING LIGHT OF MY YEARS
  51. My Lovely Skellig’s Shore
  52. AFTERWORD
  53. Copyright