If life in little places dies,
greater places share the loss,
life, if you like, may not be worth
One passing game of pitch and toss
And yet a Nation’s life is laid
In places like the Crooked Cross
(Brendan Kennelly ‘The Crooked Cross’ )
The spirit of any place is a hard thing to quantify but it surely owes much to the pastimes, the sorrows, the joys and the characters that touch the inhabitants of a place. This spirit of village Ireland is what inspired Brendan’s novel The Crooked Cross.
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Bye now,
Lucia
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Organized music and religion
be damned!