Drink to the Bird: An Omagh Boyhood Recalled - Hardcover

Kiely, Benedict

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0413649903 ISBN 13: 9780413649904

Verlag: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1991

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Benedict Kiely's account of his youth, full of reminiscence about people and places, is about the upbringing which shaped the novelist and short-story writer he was to become. His own history and that of his family and friends mingle with the history of the town of Omagh and of Ireland itself.

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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".

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• Verlag: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0413649903
• ISBN 13: 9780413649904
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256