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The Green Fool Paperback / softback - 2001
by Patrick Kavanagh
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- Title The Green Fool
- Author Patrick Kavanagh
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, London
- Date February 22, 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780141184203_inp
- 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.