The Place: On a Magical Journey Home

by McPhillips, William Brendan

• ISBN13: 9780738842202
• ISBN10: 0738842206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Textstream

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
In Ballaghaderreen	p. 13
The Well	p. 15
Denby's Window	p. 16
The Ballagh' Line	p. 17
The Bat in the Bedroom	p. 18
Gallagher's Field	p. 19
The Blizzard of '47	p. 20
Dolly Galvin's Cow	p. 21
On Bockagh Hill	p. 22
Wading the Shoals at Clooncunny Bridge	p. 23
The Brusna School Wall	p. 24
The River Lung	p. 25
Requiem for Alfie Kelly	p. 26
In Bruegel's Eye	p. 27
Lilacs on Dalton Terrace	p. 29
After the Storm	p. 30
Bockagh Hill	p. 31
Halloween in the Hazel Woods	p. 32
The Protestantchapel at Saint Nathy's	p. 33
Play Mass	p. 35
In Memoriam	p. 36
Memory Stones	p. 37
The Day Benito Died	p. 39
Something There is	p. 41
Santa Claus	p. 42
In Jimmy Hession's Shop, Next Door	p. 44
Making Hay	p. 46
Snail's Trails	p. 47
Reverie in a Barber's Chair	p. 50
When the Men of Cloontia Came	p. 51
Shoveling the Neighbors Out	p. 52
In Sharkey's Yard	p. 53
Daisy Dots	p. 54
In Between Time	p. 55
Clooncunny Bell	p. 56
Harps	p. 60
Night Visions	p. 61
Echoes of a Highland Song	p. 62
The Celtic Knot	p. 63
Nasturtiums	p. 64
Croagh Patrick	p. 65
The Four Altars	p. 67
Escaping War	p. 69
The Gift of Solitude	p. 70
Beyond the Borders of the Mind and Night	p. 71
I Owe My Life to a Mouse	p. 72
One of the Good Old Days	p. 73
The Purple Gloom	p. 74
The Rhythm of Stone	p. 75
No Ninety Five for Me	p. 76
The Fifes and Drums	p. 78
Among the Rushes on Lough Gara Shore	p. 80
Under Aughalustia Bridge	p. 81
Standing in Boyle Abbey	p. 84
The Dublin Bus	p. 86
The Plantation	p. 88
A River Known As Lung	p. 89
Picking Blackberries on Boher Bui	p. 90
The Way of The Little Oaks	p. 91
Returning	p. 93
Cloned Again	p. 94
Two Centuries of Seventeen Ninety Eight	p. 95
Lough Gara's Stumbling Stones	p. 96
It Might Be Maeve of Connacht	p. 97
The Brother's School	p. 103
Going to Find The Bog	p. 104
Back to Bockagh Hill	p. 105
The Millennial Woods of MacDermot at Coolavin	p. 106
November 27th, 1999	p. 107
Uncovering an Ancient Well	p. 108
Michael Freyne's Clock	p. 110
The Capitalization of Ballaghaderreen	p. 117
Unholy Graves	p. 121
All Ireland Champions Saint Nathy's College, 2000	p. 122
Roscommon Champs	p. 124
Oisin and Me	p. 125
Glossary	p. 139
A Night in Connemara Light	p. 140
A Magical Port
Preface	p. 159
Forsythia On Plandome Road	p. 161
Walking with Wordsworth at Baxter Pond	p. 162
Passing the Main Street School	p. 163
The Quarrel with Milton On Library Drive	p. 164
The Port Washington Public Library	p. 165
Memory and Manorhaven Park	p. 166
The Place and Face Are One	p. 168
A White Dogwood	p. 169
Rights of Passage On Shore Road	p. 170
An Evening On the Town Dock	p. 171
Night Lights On Shore Road	p. 172
A New Face On Main Street	p. 173
Horses in Sands Point	p. 174
Memories in Oak	p. 175
For Those Who Tend to Gardens	p. 176
Gracious Dining off Sunset Park	p. 177
November 20th, 1991	p. 178
November On the Town Dock	p. 179
October On the Roslyn Viaduct	p. 180
New Church at Shelter Rock	p. 181
Peter Fraser's Orange Tree	p. 182
Between Us and a Rose	p. 183
Against the Clock	p. 184
Among These Phantom Hills	p. 185
The Willow by Mill Pond	p. 186
These Islanders	p. 187
Here Where I Was Born	p. 188
In between Bites at the Haven Diner	p. 189
In the Woods at Shelter Rock	p. 190
With Millie On Manhasset Bay	p. 191
A Belated Thanks!	p. 192
Echoes in My Soul	p. 193
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