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	Green Fool First published in 1938, The Green Fool was withdrawn as a result of a libel action. It is one of those rare books that is difficult to describe with restraint, an autobiography that paints a fascinating picture of a young man in a patriarchal society and captures the essence of Irish rural life. There are exquisite descriptions of country fairs, weddings, dances, poaching expeditions, political banditry and religious pilgrimages. 'The Green Fool has Traherne's mystic vision: Hemingway's stark simplicity; Thurber's fantastic humour; and it is one of the few authentic accounts of life in Ireland in this century' - Irish Press The autobiography of one of Ireland's greatest poets - 'a very beautiful book written with a lot of wit and compassion and no sentimentality' - Hibernia 'The Green Fool has Traherne's mystic vision: Hemingway's stark simplicity; Thurber's fantastic humour; and it is one of the few authentic accounts of life in Ireland in this century' - Irish Press Price: €13.00


	Tarry Flynn A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes.... For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above it all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Like The Green Fool, his autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier in this century. 'Any man who wrote Tarry Flynn is entitled to throw down his hat and offer a challenge to the wide world. Tarry Flynn is a work of art' - Irish Times Price: €12.00


	Patrick Kavanagh - A Poet's Country Selected Pose, Edited by Antoinette Quinn While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was above all a poet, for the most of his writing life he was a prolific author of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his time, and past times; on the spiritual function of poetry; and on his own background and experiences as an isolated genius - impoverished, sometimes ostracized, and surrounded, as he saw it, by mediocrity. The prose complements the poetry, telling us things about Kavanagh that the poems do not. This is the first authoritative gathering of the shorter prose writings. Edited and introduced by Antoinette Quinn, Kavanagh's leading interpreter and biographer, A Poet's Country: Selected Prose, supplants the earlier, inadequate 1967 Collected Pruse, which contained material already available elsewhere and focused on later writings at the expense of work from the vital decades of the thirties and forties. A Poet's Country is both a reliable scholarly edition and an immensely readable, entertaining collection. It contains the essential shorter prose works from throughout Kavanagh's carer: the legendary autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences, as well as a through selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary criticism. Its verse and musicality, poignancy and pitch, rage and glory, expresses as no other the voice of rural Ireland. Like a menhir, Kavanagh stands alone at the summit of Irish literature of the mid twentieth century. Price: €16.00


	Selected Poems - Patrick Kavanagh One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-57) released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. Instead his poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focuses on closely observed images of rural life, where 'ordinary things wear lovely wings'. This section ranges from Kavangh's early poems such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening', to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' and his celebratory later verse 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling'. The first comprehensive selection of Kavangh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland. 'These poems make you feel all over again a truth which the mind becomes adept at evading…"You must change your life"' - Seamus Heaney Price: €13.00


	Almost Everything - Cassette Tape Recording of Kavanagh on cassette tape Almost Everything is a recording of works written and spoken by Patrick Kavanagh, including The Same Again, Epic, God in Woman. This recording took place in Dublin in 1963 and is introduced by an Autobiographical Prose and the song 'If you ever go to Dublin Town'. 20 poems and extracts included. Now Reduced - Was €10 Price: €7.50


	Almost Everything - CD Recording of Kavanagh on CD Almost Everything is a recording of works written and spoken by Patrick Kavanagh, including The Same Again, Epic, God in Woman. This recording took place in Dublin in 1963 and is introduced by an Autobiographical Prose and the song 'If you ever go to Dublin Town'. 20 poems and extracts included. Price: €20.00