The Bodhran Makers

ISBN: 156833186X

Author: Keane, John B.

Condition: New

Product Description A saga of the struggle between hard-living farmers and the Church, The Bodhran Makers is set in rural Ireland in the 1950s. The Bodhran (pronounced bough-rawn), makers of the title are "poverty stricken people who never lost their dignity." Every January, they celebrate their Celtic ancestry with a festival of singing, drinking, and music making with the Bodhran, a drum made from goat skin. Review Sly, funny, heart-rending...Keane writes lyrically. Recommended. (Library Journal)At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. (Publishers Weekly)Furious, raging, passionate and (in a way that skitters along the Pat and Mike border without ever falling over it) very, very funny. (The Boston Globe)A success...holds a necessary and valuable place in Irish literature. (The New York Times) About the Author John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular authors; he has written more than twenty best-selling books and of plays which were perennial favorites. He holds two honorary doctorates and is a member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of arts. He lives in Listowel, Co. Kerry.