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Farewell to the Son of the Traveller (I.M. Patrick McKinstry)
by David McKinstry
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
My father’s ashes were scattered
In a field full of thistles
On McKinstry Road in Belfast
Whilst the final lines of Joyce’s
The Dead were read.
The wind gently lifted
His remains and blew his spirit
To the four provinces of Erin.
Those same silver breezes
Glided grains of him
Into the heavens
Where the solar winds
Carried his quintessence
Through the universe.
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