And As I Rode by Granard Moat
And As I Rode by Granard Moat
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Author: Benedict, KielyRescued from memory by Ireland’s leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways of thirty-two counties. Contents include poetry by W.B. Yeats, A.E., F.R.Higgins, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Francis Ledwidge and Oliver St John Gogarty; and songs of love, rebellion and in praise of nature including ‘The Yellow Bittern’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’, ‘Ringletted Youth of my Love’, ‘Galway Races’ and ‘My Love is Like the Sun’.
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ISBN: 9780946640782
Extent: 227
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Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) a native of Omagh, Co. Tyrone, was educated at University College Dublin. He worked as a journalist, broadcaster and university lecturer in Dublin and in the USA, and wrote several novels and works of non-fiction.