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The Grey Goose of Kilnevin: that old Gaelic magic

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Yesterday evening I finished rereading The Grey Goose of Kilnevin by Patricia Lynch. Anybody else brought up on Patricia Lynch? I bet some of you were. I wanted to get hold of her books for my own children and guess what? She’s out of print and has been for decades. I even wrote to her old publisher and asked them what was going on and got one of those replies to the effect of: we’re always being asked for them but there’s just no demand.

Patricia Lynch (1894-1972) was one of Ireland’s best-loved children’s writers. She was a committed nationalist, a socialist and a journalist who covered the Easter Rising for Sylvia Pankhurst’s paper, The Workers’ Dreadnought. Not at all what you’d expect as background for the author of stories that must have warmed the cockles of Eamon de Valera’s heart with their extolling of the virtues of a rural…

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