Trespassers (2013)
“This looked out past several downward-sloping fields belonging to Captain Disney towards a pond where a solitary heron spent most of its time standing motionless on one leg. On the near side of the hut was a verandah, to which Eileen and I were sometimes allowed to bring a picnic. Usually, however, this territory was taboo, reserved for The Bell’s staff members, chief of whom was Harry Craig, who could put his hand to anything. He edited, subedited, wrote articles signed, according to need, wit...h either his own name or a pseudonym, and queued for our bus tickets when we were taking a trip to Cork or, as we sometimes did, to Kilkenny. Over the years Harry helped Seán to make several garden features including a swing, a sandpit, a rose walk and a wooden seat the size of a cartwheel which encircled an old tree. He was also our star reader when we read each other poetry, as people in those years used to do. With a lilting Limerick accent and a penchant for love verse, he was a student at Trinity College, a parson’s son, and a known heart-breaker, for news of whom female voices would beg with shy insistence on the phone.MoreLess
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