SO LONG TO COOLANORAN
Written by Patrick J. O'Connor
Published by Oireacht Na Mumhan Books
in 2011
ISBN: 9780953389698
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SO LONG TO COOLANORAN
Written by Patrick J. O'Connor.
Stock no. 2140592
1st IRELAND.
2011.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780953389698. A few small foxspots to outer page edges. SIGNED by author, with dedication to a previous owner.
Front cover
Contents
- Word-play, David Hayes
- Off to Dublin in the Green
- Word weaver, Margaret MacCurtain
- Word-smith, Tom Jones Hughes
- Rosmead
- Willie Smyth from Tipp
- Class of '67
- First teaching cohort
- National Library of Ireland
- Earliest trip of a lifetime
- Missives from Monaghan
- The man from Ballinastick
- Travels with Willie Murray
- 'Townland of the Big Quay'
- Pre-figuring Irish Studies, Padraig de Brun
- Meeting with Esther
- Fishing off Dalkey and landed stories
- Encountering philologist Alan Bliss
- Paddy goes to Dublin
- Dublin landladies Evocation of Dublin places
- Go West young man, go West!
- Negotiation Leap Year
- East and west of Galway
- Lovely Leitrim
- The man up from the Lough
- Things fall apart
- Dublin for a change of tack
- Firhouse
- Visitation
- Night-hawk
- Andrew Street camaraderie
- Turning point and postal strike
- Geography and conviviality in UCD
- How the West was won
- Realm of cartography
- Kilcock
- Thomond College Limerick
- Work in progress
- A traverse with the Poet Hartnett
- Original of the species
- Canada in an Orwellian year
- Canadian traverses
- My father's bicycle
- Attrition of age
- A week is a long time: I
- A week is a long time: II
- My father's funeral
- Give it a year
- So long to Coolanoran