A Hymn of the DawnA Hymn of the Dawn tells of the life of the poet Padraic Fallon (1905 1974), his wife Don and their six sons during an idyllic summer in the south east of Ireland in the 1950s. At Prospect, a Georgian house with a small farm, the poet writes his poems, newspaper columns, and radio plays, a cigarette smouldering in the ashtray at his elbow, pounding the keys of his typewriter as his eyes stare beyond the words. His sons, when not working on house or

and a remarkable début collection

An introductory essay

' - Charles Lysaght

It is surprising that this is the first autobiography by a former Provost of Trinity College Dublin since it was founded in 1592

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Photographs by the author and by Bill Doyle

In his call for cultural regeneration

attending the Model School

Tempted by movie contracts

and written out of local memory – who comes home to die and

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Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304