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Skellig Sunset Paperback – Illustrated, 13 Jun. 2006

by Michael Kirby (Author), Mary Shine Thompson (Editor)

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Skelligs Sunset, a posthumous volume of work in English by Michael Kirby, is the final part in his trilogy of memoir, storytelling and poetry begun with Skelligside (1990) and Skelligs Calling (2003). This remarkable writer, farmer-fisherman and painter was born in May 1906 and died in April 2005. Aside from a three-year sojourn in the United States where he worked on the railroads during the Great Depression, he spent his lifetime in County Kerry. He also wrote eight books in Irish under the name Micheal Ua Ciarmhaic, and from his eyrie in Ballinskelligs bore witness to a world that changed so radically, from the age of the transatlantic cable to the era of the Internet. His lyric poems evoke the sea, wind and landscape of south Iveragh in all its natural beauty. The memoirs, beginning with his schooldays and concluding in his garden, describe characters from fellow storyteller Sean O Conaill to Dan of the Roads, and record night hauls at sea, superstitions, wedding customs, games, pastimes and petty sessions in the Portmagee courts. Folklore and tall tales of courtship, fortune-seeking, gypsy magic and homecoming depict characters from the peninsula and resonate with a piquant humour and imagination. Deep knowledge and a love of the local pervade Michael Kirby's writings. They remind the reader of the wonders and simpler joys in a life that he celebrated with such spirit.

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Paperback : 200 pages
ISBN-10 : 1843510839
ISBN-13 : 978-1843510833
Dimensions : 13.34 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
Publisher : The Lilliput Press Ltd; Illustrated edition (13 Jun. 2006)
Language: : English

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"'Kirby's keen senses are wonderfully evocative... He is a Kerry performer with a poet's relish of words and his book testifies to the rich and different mindset framed by the language and its landscape.' - Michael Viney, The Irish Times 'This beautiful work... is a magnificent triumph of giving us everything he has to offer. He writes charmingly with colour, fun and a flair few others have ever bettered. Make no mistake, this is a book set apart, a classic of its kind by a man set apart.' - Tom Widger, Sunday Tribune 'Kirby revels, like few authors do today, in the sheer wonder of Creation. Poet, painter, storyteller, folklorist and fisherman emerge and merge in this glowing book, speaking of his awe as he turns a trained eye to an environment he has lived in and loved for almost a century.' - Gabriel Rosenstock 'What a pleasure to read this wonderful collection of memories and reflections, fact, folklore and natural history... Michael Kirby is a man who understands the true value of life. He shows us in this marvellous book that everything that lives is connected... his is the view of the wise man: we have much to learn from him.' - Jane Urquhart, author of Awake and The Underpainter"

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Records the life of a nonagenarian fisherman-poet and painter from the south Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry. This third volume of memoir, poems and fiction extends and completes the cycle begun with "Skelligside and Skelligs Calling".

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