Kerry on My Mind

by Fitzmaurice, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9781897648544
• ISBN10: 1897648545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Summary

"A poet and primary school teacher, Fitzmaurice explores the role of the poet and teacher within a community. Noting the importance of the poet in Irish society since ancient times." - Library Journal

Author Biography

Gabriel Fitzmaurice teaches in the local Primary School in Moyvane, Co. Kerry.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(3)
A Kerry of the Mind	4	(4)
My Own Place	8	(4)
The Listowel Literary Phenomenon	12	(3)
The Singular Achievement of John B. Keane	15	(3)
The Bodhran Makers	18	(3)
Culpable Innocence?	21	(4)
Schooldays	25	(3)
`Missing' the Master	28	(3)
The Gift of Ink: The Legacy of Bryan Mac Mahon	31	(6)
`Muse, I Claim Your Attention': Celebrating Kerry in Song	37	(4)
Poetry and School	41	(3)
Approaching Pentecost: Poetry in Contemporary Society	44	(4)
Becoming Song: Brendan Kennelly -- A Ballylongford of the Heart	48	(10)
From Pig-killer to Rain-man: Brendan Kennelly's The Man Made of Rain	58	(4)
Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices	62	(5)
`No Man Is An Island'	67	(2)
Creating the Conscience of the Race: A Portrait of the Artist as a National School Teacher	69	(8)
The Poet in the Classroom	77