![]() He begins his ' story of Ireland' with the early days of the planet, and then spins words through four ice ages - ' Ice, they tell me, is never pure white. In 1951, this ancient mariner (he took to the road in 1912) of a bard is welcomed in a nine-year-old boy's home by father and aunt, and received coldly by the mother. ![]() Delaney tells us that ' stories unite us'. He unrolls a tapestry of Irish history and myth for his reader, framing it in the modern tale of a boy's fascination with everything a travelling storyteller represents. Frank Delaney's Ireland celebrates the Celtic bard. The bardic tradition is a strong one in Ireland, whose people depended on Seanchai to keep alive an oral history in periods of severe oppression, and where unjust kings used to fear their satirical verses. ![]()
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