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Green Fool
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Green Fool Paperback - 2001

by Kavanagh, Patrick

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  • Title Green Fool
  • Author Kavanagh, Patrick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Limited, London
  • Date February 22, 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP94074244
  • ISBN 9780141184203 / 0141184205
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.12 x 0.57 in (19.81 x 13.00 x 1.45 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821

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Summary

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.

About the author

Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967.