Over The Backyard Wall Book cover type:Paperback Set during the era of

Set during the era of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath

Swift can only be properly understood if we recognize his love of humanity and his capacity for friendship

This volume concludes a remarkable half-century journey

and summers at Fahan and Portadown

Over The Backyard Wall Book cover type:Paperback Set during the era ofFrom this mosaic of memory a self portrait emerges that takes Thomas Kilroy, a child of Hitlers war, from his upbringing in Callan to the threshold of his career as one of Irelands most distinguished living playwrights. The frontier town of Callan was a crucible of Irelands War of Independence. Kilroys pro Treaty father was a police sergeant who found solace in greyhounds and gambling and his mother was anti Treaty . They were emblems of divided