Beat the Goatskin till the Goat Cries : Notes

Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s skillful storytelling and optimistic spirit give a charming account of Ireland, particularly rural Ireland, with its customs, education, sport, literature, music and song.

A Kerry of the mind	p. 7
Culpable innocence?	p. 11
'Ring out the old, ring in the new'	p. 16
My own place	p. 18
A Kerry joke	p. 22
Home	p. 25
Sunday night in Mairead's Bar, Moyvane	p. 28
Corner boys	p. 30
Christmas	p. 32
That empty feeling	p. 36
Do Chum Ghloire De agus Onora na hEireann	p. 38
No man is an island	p. 41
Up down!	p. 44
Tread softly on my dreams	p. 46
Up for the match	p. 49
Winning isn't everything	p. 52
Schooldays	p. 54
Inner pain	p. 57
Creating the conscience of the race : a portrait of the artist as a national school teacher	p. 59
The poet in the classroom	p. 68
Poetry and school	p. 76
The Listowel literary phenomenon	p. 80
'Missing' the master	p. 83
The gift of ink : the legacy of Bryan MacMahon	p. 87
Where history meets poetry : Bryan MacMahon and 'The Valley of Knockanure'	p. 95
Beating the goatskin till the goat cries : the importance of folk song and music to John B. Keane, the man and playwright	p. 128
John B. Keane : a personal perspective	p. 135
The passing of an era	p. 138
'Muse, I claim your attention' : celebrating Kerry in song	p. 141
Approaching Pentecost : poetry in contemporary society	p. 146
'Becoming song' : Brendan Kennelly - a Ballylongford of the heart	p. 151
From pig-killer to rain-man : Brendan Kennelly's The man made of rain	p. 163
'[An] exile out foreign in 'Glantine' : Michael Hartnett and the sense of place	p. 167
A stoic's world : Dennis O'Driscoll's Exemplary damages	p. 178
Irish poetry now : other voices	p. 184
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Beat the Goatskin till the Goat Cries : Notes from a Kerry Village

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