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The brilliant first volume of memoirs by one of Ireland's greatest writers
In Drink to the Bird poetic imagination allied with sheer, delectable Gaelic gift of the gab, turn what might otherwise have sounded like a fairly ordinary account of boyhood and manhood in Ireland between two world wars, into a literary feast. "Sound" is an operative word here because this book should be read aloud. Memory speaks, sings, recreates scenes and characters. Anecdotal, hilariously funny, and replete with verse, this memoir has the cadence of a discursive outpour and Joycean resonance. . . It is immediately evident that here is a writer of outstanding accomplishment.' (Financial Times) "Benedict Kiely is the Irish Balzac" (Heinrich Boll)
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About Benedict Kiely Benedict Kiely was educated at University College, Dublin, where he began his journalistic career. In 1945 he became a full-time critic for the Irish Independent, and published his first work, Counties of Contention, in the same year. He has continued to receive acclaim for his writing and journalism over the next five decades, receiving the Award for Literature from the Irish Academy of Letters, and is one of Ireland's best-known broadcasters.
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