What the Curlew Said: Nostos ContinuedWhat The Curlew Said is an autobiography, a sequel to Nostos, concluding the story of John Moriartys life in Connemara during the 1980s and subsequent return to his native Kerry. He writes with compelling detail about his time at Roundstone and environs, restoring gardens at Leitirdyfe House and Lisnabrucka, and building his own house at Toombeola. He reflects on his Kerry childhood and the death of his father; he describes his adopted family, a

continues John Moriarty’s spiritual journey embarked upon in Crossing the Kedron

they struggle to grasp that this is a shared crisis that cannot be borne alone

They are entrancing

Using Tone’s original manuscripts

Set in a midlands town where respectability masks obsession

and went on to declare later that he hates Prods

this dialogue between early and later selves traces the development of the boy from Garvaghey to the figure in the cave

Bendan Behan to S

how in 1907

whose social and sexual mores are chronicled and dissected in this tract for our times

the second volume of a remarkable trilogy

John Kelly