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Drink to the Bird Benedict Kiely

Drink to the Bird By Benedict Kiely

Drink to the Bird by Benedict Kiely


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Summary

Benedict Kiely was raised in Omagh town in County Tyrone. In adolescence the young Benedict spent a year as a Jesuit novitiate in the Irish midlands. But a back injury obliged him to end his vocation and he returned to Omagh. This book looks at his boyhood and early manhood.

Drink to the Bird Summary

Drink to the Bird: An Omagh Boyhood Recalled by Benedict Kiely

Benedict Kiely was raised in Omagh town in County Tyrone. It was a historic town, set in hill country, and haunted with spirits and stories. In adolescence, believing that he had a vocation to become a priest, the young Benedict spent a year as a Jesuit novitiate in the Irish midlands. But a back injury obliged him to spend 18 months in hospital. This put paid to his vocation and he returned to Omagh in Christmas 1939. This book looks at Kiely's boyhood and early manhood and is full of reminiscences about the people and places that shaped the novelist. Benedict Kiely has written two collections of stories - A Journey to the Seven Streams and A Letter to Peachtree and his novels include There was an Ancient House, Proxopera and Nothing Happens in Carmincross.

Table of Contents

The entry; days of bands and ballads; three barbers and Frenly the Robber; Meditations on a metal bridge; the gold ring; intribo ad altare; the soldiers and the spires; the hands of Esau; Drumquin, you're not a city; some poets and the rats pad; to the swinging bars; and beyond; evensong.

Additional information

GOR001699464
9780413649904
0413649903
Drink to the Bird: An Omagh Boyhood Recalled by Benedict Kiely
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Methuen Publishing Ltd
19910900
256
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