The Street – Poems & Ballads of John B. Keane
(Selected & Edited by Joanna Keane-O'Flynn) 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. 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.
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Dan Paddy Andy, The Matchmaker – John B. Keane
At a time when priests patrolled the narrow country lanes at night, searching with sticks and even with dogs, for courting couples, Dan Paddy Andy came in for ringing denunciations from the Church. Archdeacon Browne intoned from the pulpit: ‘There is a wild man after descending from the mountains and it is the man of the triple name: Dan Paddy Andy.’A constant source of anecdotes, he lived by his wits and by his skill in repartee.
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The Best of John B. Keane
In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life. All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. This is a collection to prize.
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The Short Stories of John B. Keane
There are more shades to John B. Keane’s humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together all John B’s short stories.
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The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane
The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control. Somehow he must also contest an election and save his reputation while holding fast to his personal philosophy: “Forage between honesty and crookedness and do the best you can".
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Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane– Volume 2
A further collection of John B. Keane’s highly successful letters. This book includes Letters of a Civic Guard, Letters of an Irish Publican, Letters of a Country Postman and Letters to the Brain.
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The Contractors (Novel)
This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor. John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England.
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Durango (Novel)
Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex, money and betrayal. Durango has been made into a film starring Brenda Fricker, Patrick Bergin and Pat Laffin.
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A High Meadow (Novel)
A High Meadow is full of comedy, tragedy and melodrama, all centred around the village of Ballybobawn and Eddie Drannaghy, the ‘Ram of God’ (a former trainee priest who was cynically seduced by the American wife of his cousin, fathered a child and was forced to leave the seminary), and his brothers Murt and Will.
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The Little Book of John B. Keane
The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane’s writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format.
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The Field (Play Text)
The Field is John B. Keane’s fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by the Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today. An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide,and stared Richard Harris, John Hurt, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger.
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Many Young Men of Twenty/Moll/The Chastitute (Play Texts)
Many Young Men of Twenty is a musical play which deals with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants’ longing for home. Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery. ‘When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother’.
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Sharon’s Grave (Play Text)
Sharon’s Grave deals with a man’s ruthless lust for land, which overrides all family loyalties, and can ultimately lead to tragedy. In The Crazy Wall, John B. Keane loses none of his realistic force in creating the powerful symbol of the wall that Michael Barrett erects.
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Pints of Porter
John B. lets loose on ‘Irish Husbands’, ‘Cold Women’, ‘Hot-tempered Women’, ‘Exercise’, ‘Courting’, ‘Crying’, ‘Talkers’, ‘Making Faces’, ‘Diplomacy’ and many more exciting topics.