The Seanchai- Kerry Literary and Cultural Centre, Listowel, Kerry

Seanchaí Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre
24 The Square,
Listowel,
Co. Kerry.
Tel. (068) 22212
Fax (068) 22170
E-mail : info@kerrywritersmuseum.com .
Website : www.kerrywritersmuseum.com

Seanchaí – Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre 24 The Square, Listowel

BOOK SHOP PAGE :

After visiting the Writers' Museum take a moment to peruse our extensive book & gift shop where you can purchase the works of the many writers featured in the Centre as well as books of local interest. Here are some of the titles available :

	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. Price : Euro 9.95
	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. It was in his later years that his fame spread far and wide, from his native Kerry, when the television cameras of RTE, BBC and ITV came to his door. Price : Euro 9.99
	*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. We also stock local hand made crafts from the exclusive 'Ken Watters Pottery' handmade in Listowel to the beautiful wood turning of Seamus Quinlan of Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry. Take a little bit of Listowel home with you when you leave! Price : Euro 16.95
	*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. In this collection are gems such as ‘A Hanging’, a tale of accusation by silence in a small village, which shows both the comic and tragic effects of small-town gossip, and ‘Guaranteed Pure’, which concerns the innocence of bachelor Willie Ramley, who is seeking an unsullied bride in Ireland. Price : Euro 10.99
	*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". Martin O’Mora, the Parish Priest of Lochnanane dispenses justice in his own inimitable way. While battling for the souls of his parishioners, he must also deal with his nephew’s shaky vocation, a sex-crazed curate and an uncontrollable outbreak of inflatable dolls. The clients of Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor require spouses that are willing, wealthy and in perfect working order – difficult to find in the underpopulated hinterlands of Ballybarra, but anything is possible for a gifted matchmaker. Price : Euro 16.95
	*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. Four very different people in four very different circumstances and the thread that binds them is John B. Keane’s skill at recognising the follies and weaknesses of men and women. The letter writers and their correspondents prove to be fine examples of this. Price : Euro 16.95
	*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. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style. Price : Euro 10.95
	*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. Price : Euro 12.99
	*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. John B. Keane weaves an inimitable tapestry of rural life: people good and bad, weak and powerful; gardaí, priests and travellers, and towering above them all the personality of the Ram of God. Price : Euro 10.95
	*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. The book includes the classics: ‘A play about sex in Ireland is always ahead of its time.’ ‘He thought felo de se was a chap from Ballybunion.’ ‘The secret of sex is not to take it seriously.’ ‘Marriage is a long, difficult confrontation with short outbreaks of peace.’ Price : Euro 6.35
	*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. Price : Euro 7.99
	*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’. The Chastitute tells the story of John Bosco, a bachelor farmer. All he is searching for is a plain decent woman to share his life. This plays tells of his many endeavours to find a mate and the end result. Price : Euro 12.70
	*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. The Man from Clare deals with the personal tragedy of an ageing athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as captain of the team, or his reputation as the best footballer in Clare. Price : Euro 7.99
	*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. ‘The common pint of porter is one of man’s few great allies. Apart from its known curative and body-building properties – its appearance – when presented properly – is a work of art. The rich creamy head and the black glistening body are its only features but the two combine to charm the eye and stimulate the heart. There are few tonics which possess the restorative constituents of its substance ...’ Price : Euro 10.95

INFORMATION & ENQUIRIES All enquiries should be made to : :

Seanchaí - Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre,
24 The Square,
Listowel,
Co. Kerry.
Tel. +353 68 22212
Fax +353 68 22170
E-mail: info@kerrywritersmuseum.com
Website : www.kerrywritersmuseum.com

Seanchaí is wheelchair accessible and provides facilities for people with disabilities.