Book description
A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn -
poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the
responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own
unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all -
or escape over the nearest horizon. Like The Green Fool, his
autobiography, Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and
beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland earlier
this century. One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic
canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released
Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity
and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular
style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.
