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The Kick

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Kick

By Richard Murphy

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About the book

The Kick is a page-turner, based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) in the relics of a walled demesne near Kilamine, County Mayo, he was shipped out and back twice to the British Crown Colony of Ceylon, where his father was a colonial administrator. Thereafter he was moved every two years or so to a different boarding school for boys, mostly in England, until he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan ...Show more

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ISBN

9781782052340

Publisher

Cork University Press

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Kick

Format

Hardcover

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