The Street: Poems and Ballads of John B. Keane (Revised)
John B. Keane
(Author)
Joanna Keane O'Flynn
(Editor)
Description
John B. Keane was a spirited, charismatic and generous man who will forever occupy a special niche in the hearts and minds of Irish people everywhere. This is a fascinating collection of many well-known John B. Keane poems and, for the first time, his songs, selected and edited by his daughter Joanna Keane-O'Flynn. It includes; The Street, My Father, The Sive Song, Sweet Listowel, Many Young Men of Twenty, Kitty Curley and If I Were the Rose of Tralee - a must for all Keane fans.
Product Details
Price
$17.24
Publisher
Mercier Press
Publish Date
December 01, 2003
Pages
90
Dimensions
5.06 X 7.81 X 0.19 inches | 0.21 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781856354158
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About the Author
John B. Keane, playwright, poet and fiction writer, was born in Listowel, County Kerry, in 1928 and died in his home town on 30 May 2002. His first play, Sive, a rural tragedy of love and greed, was rejected by the Abbey Theatre but made a sensational impact on its first - amateur - production and has come to be seen as a classic work. Among his other notable plays are Sharon's Grave (1960), Big Maggie (1969) and The Field (1965), which was successfully filmed. The death of John B. Keane, after a long battle with cancer, was mourned by the Irish nation. He was a Listowel man, a Kerryman and an Irishman; his appeal - whether as a raconteur, playwright or novelist - was universal.
