Cries of an Irish Caveman

by Durcan, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781860469091
• ISBN10: 1860469094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Harvill Pr

Summary

The highly regarded Winner of the Whitbread Award in 1990 brings his tender lyricism & incisive wit to bear on the themes of love & loss, life & death--an intimate mediation on twentieth century romance & its demise.

Table of Contents

PART ONE GIVE HIM BONDI
Give Him Bondi	3	(20)
PART TWO SONIA AND DONAL AND TRACEY AND PATRICK
Sonia	23	(3)
Donal	26	(5)
Homage to Tracey Emin	31	(2)
The Death of the Legendary Dr Patrick Nugent, G.P., 6 October, 1999	33	(2)
Reading McGahern	35	(1)
Portrait of the Artist	36	(2)
Charles Brady's Irish Painter	38	(1)
The Bunnacurry Scurry	39	(4)
No. 13, Est. 1928 McKennas Barber	43	(2)
Auntie Gerry's Favourite Married Nephew Seamus	45	(1)
Spokes Embracing on the Banks of the Brisbane	46	(1)
Head Hunters	47	(1)
Garbo	48	(4)
The Great Cathedral of Stockholm	52	(1)
Under the Bank of Sweden	53	(3)
The 24,000 Islands of Stockholm	56	(2)
On Giving a Poetry Recital to an Empty Hall	58	(2)
Murphy's Farewell	60	(2)
The Death of the Mother of the Dalai Lama	62	(2)
Night-Elegy for Therese Cronin	64	(2)
In Memoriam Sister Mary Magdalena, Martyr, (1910-99)	66	(2)
New Year's Eve, 1999	68	(2)
In Memoriam Liam Walsh	70	(1)
The Neighbour	71	(4)
PART THREE EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND WEDDING CRY
Early Christian Ireland Wedding Cry	75	(8)
PART FOUR CRIES OF AN IRISH CAVEMAN
Cries of an Irish Caveman	83	(7)
The Origin of Species	90	(1)
Bovinity	91	(2)
Love at First Sight	93	(2)
Toomyvara	95	(1)
The Happy Throng	96	(1)
The Black Cow of the Family	97	(2)
Aaron's Rod	99	(2)
The Lamb in the Oven	101	(1)
Lady with Portable Electric Fence	102	(1)
Beijing	103	(2)
The Cotoneaster of Hymenstown	105	(2)
Shuttlecock Made in Ireland	107	(2)
Chewing the Cud in the Lower Paddock	109	(2)
The Cattle Dealer's Daughter	111	(2)
My Bride of Aherlow	113	(2)
Tulip	115	(1)
In the Valley near Slievenamon	116	(2)
Fethard	118	(1)
Animals Who Meet on the Road	119	(2)
The Lady Testifies	121	(2)
On the Brink of Her Ecstasy, He Collapses	123	(2)
Valentine's Day	125	(1)
In the Days before Milking Parlours and Mobile Phones	126	(1)
29 February	127	(2)
Oxtail	129	(1)
Bullock with Cut Head	130	(1)
National Cleavage Day, 30 March 2000	131	(2)
Torn in Two	133	(2)
Turbo Intercooler Mitsubishi Pajero	135	(2)
Brucellosis	137	(2)
Desert Island Bull	139	(2)
Slobbering at Lughnasa	141	(1)
The Girl from Golden	142	(1)
Lady of the Golden Vale	143	(2)
The Camaraderie of the Mart	145	(1)
Bovril	146	(1)
Bananas	147	(1)
The White Ox of Foxbrook	148	(2)
The Price of Gas	150	(2)
Abattoir	152	(1)
Forgetting the Ox	153	(1)
Easter Sunday	154	(1)
A Little Woman	155	(1)
Fear is the Prong	156	(1)
The Second Coming	157	(2)
A Day in the Cave	159