The Hurley Maker's Son

A glorious book, a perfect elegy, a gorgeous tumble of memories of life, death, love and, above all, family.The Hurley Maker’s Son is suffused with warmth and joy and an ineffable sadness. The closing passages, like many in this book, are exquisite and almost unbearable. – Donal Ryan
There is something both eerie and deeply convincing about Deeley’s re-inhabiting of the landscape that formed him, the family that shaped and nourished him. Every sentence rings true, like an axe biting into seasoned wood, a hurley striking the ball cleanly. – Theo Dorgan
Beautifully written. – Michael Harding
A courageous and heartfelt work, a lament and an act of recuperation, deceptively artless and engagingly plainspoken. – George O’Brien * Irish Times *
Gloriously poetic … Every sentence counts in this beautiful, evocative memoir. The prose shimmers. I adored it. – Sue Leonard * Irish Examiner *
A wonderfully evocative memoir. – Sean O’Rourke * RTE Radio 1 *
Powerful remembrance of things past … very impressive. * RTE Guide *
A lovely, melancholy account of an Irish country childhood … an elegaic glimpse of a time that’s long gone. * Sunday Express *
Touching and poignant … Captivating … his rhythmic prose ensures you’ll keep turning the page right to the end. * Irish Farmers Journal *
Deeley’s memoir of his childhood in Galway is a moving, memorable elegy not only for his father but for a time of rural life now lost except in memory and in the words of an exceptional writer. Deeley’s bright, sharp style pays homage with humour and respect to dark times of aching grief and light days of redeeming love. * Saga Magazine *

Patrick Deeley was born in the townland of Foxhall, outside Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1953. He has published six highly acclaimed collections of poems with Dedalus Press including Decoding Samara, The Bones of Creation, and Groundswell- New and Selected Poems. In addition his poems have appeared in many leading literary outlets in Ireland, UK, USA, Canada and Australia, been widely translated and won a number of awards. Patrick is married to the artist Judy Carroll Deeley and they have two children.

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