A Hymn Of The Dawn

Fallon Jr, Padraic

ISBN 10: 1843510367 / ISBN 13: 9781843510369

Verlag: The Lilliput Press, 2003

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR002882475

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A Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905-1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950's. At Prospect, a Georgian house with a small farm, the poet writes his poems, newspaper columns, and radio plays, 'a cigarette smouldering in the ashtray at his elbow, pounding the keys of his typewriter as his eyes stare beyond the words'. His sons, when not working on house or farm, exploit the solitude and the open spaces: fishing, soldiering, sailing, poaching, and finally embarking on an expedition in an old herring cot to discover the secrets of the inland waterways.
The poet has his own adventures. He collects ballads and sea shanties for his radio programme, meeting sailors and fishermen, jaunting along the coast in his old car. He takes to the open harbour in a tiny punt. His sons go with him on a fishing-boat to visit a lighthouse.
Other figures emerge in rich colour: the ploughman, the well-digger, the wildfowler, the handyman, the water diviner, the mischievous uncle from Dublin, poachers and fishermen, the aspiring Caruso who sings to a full moon, and the local man who runs naked through the fields. To Prospect come visitors from the outside world - the artist Tony O'Malley, piper and traditional singer Seamus Ennis, the poet Austin Clarke, the art critic and former gunman Ernie O'Malley, and a succession of writers, critics and poets.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: PADRAIC FALLON was born in Wexford in 1946, the sixth son of the poet Padraic Fallon. He is married with four children. He lives and works in London. This is his first book. PADRAIC FALLON (1905-1974) was born in Athenry, County Galway. He worked as a customs official for over forty years, mainly in Wexford. His first work was published by AE (George Russell) in the Irish Statesman. He continued to publish prolifically poems, stories, and reviews in many periodicals. But no collection of his poetry appeared until the publication by the Dolmen Press of Poems in the year of his death. His work was much influenced by writing in the Irish language, which he called in an article in The Bell, a powerful ghost . Along with Austin Clarke, he was one of the few writers in English to seriously engage with the Gaelic literary tradition in the 1940s and 1950s. His verse plays Diarmuid and Grainne (1950) and The Vision of Mac Conglinne (1953) were broadcast on Radio Éireann, and described by Micheál Ó hAodha as the most successful modernizations of old Irish literature . His play Sweet Love Till Morn was staged by the Abbey Theatre in 1971, while a screenplay The Fenians was directed for television by James Plunkett in 1966. Padraic Fallon died in Aylesford, Kent, and is buried in Kinsale, County Cork. Poems and Versions , edited by his son Brian, appeared in 1983, featuring many previously uncollected poems as well as translations from the Greek, Latin and French. His Collected Poems was finally published by Gallery Press in 1990.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Hymn Of The Dawn
Verlag: The Lilliput Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: Good