That Unearthly Valley - A Donegal Childhood
Patrick McGinley
Patrick McGinley was born in Cill Athnaid in Glencolmcille and on emigrating
became a well-known author and publisher in England.
A canny, loving portrait of a 1940s/1950s rural Irish upbringing, a moving homage
to the folk imagination, and a heartfelt valedictory for
a traditional way of life—subsistence farming, sheep-rearing,
hand-weaving, fiddle-playing and story-telling—that has
largely vanished from our shores. Born in Glencolmcille
in 1937, McGinley tells of growing up in the back of beyond,
an isolated, seaside village marked by a generosity of
spirit & true sense of community, wherein he first encountered such mysteries as crab
toes, family, sex, death, and school, along with a larger-than-life
local curate, Fr James McDyer, a radical socialist in a
Roman collar. McGinley also deftly describes a number of
other illustrious blow-ins to the Glen, from the eponymous
St Colmcille to the renowned American painter Rockwell
Kent, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and British composer Sir
Arnold Bax. Here is a deeply felt, consummately plumbed,
and superbly crafted story of our vanishing past to sit
on the shelf next to Alice Taylor’s ‘To School Through
the Fields’.
ISBN : 9781848401198
New Island 2011
Price: €14.99
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