Murphy, Richard, - The Kick: a memoir.

London, Granta Books, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Irish poet Richard Murphy draws on five decades of private notebooks to create a unique memoir of his life and times. Written with the personality of a dairy and full of a diary and disparaging wit, his memoir takes us from a decayed Protestant 'Big House' in the west of Ireland to the colonial island of Ceylon where in the 1930s, the author's father was the last British Mayor of Colombo. Boarding school, Oxford, C.S. Lewis, discrimination against the Irish.

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