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An eight year labour of love, the 85-year-old from Clohanmore East, Cree, began writing the book – which is made up of stories, quotes, poems and more – in 2013 and the result is “an affectionate tribute to West Clare based on the memories of Christy Killeen,”
Christy, a founding member of the Clare Association in Dublin, is deeply rooted in Clare having attended Clohanbeg National School, Miltown Malbay Vocational School, before graduating in electrical engineering from Kevin Street. He joined Radio Eireann and later RTE television.
Married to Betty O’Connell, the father of seven details his deep love of Clare in the book: “I wrote this book for reasons of my deep affection for Clare and West Clare and the people there-in, the people particularly, the people who are welcoming and warm. And really, I wrote it with a flavour and the people, places and the pride people have in their place in a way, those three Ps are the streamline right through the book.
“I wrote it through a system of stories rather than a book about reflections and memories I was able to break them up into a story system and I believed that a lot of what we learned through our ancestors and everything has been handed down to us through stories so I said I’d go with that structure. I had fifty or sixty stories but with time constraints and everything, there’s forty-one stories in the book.”
Hardcover, signed by the author