Confessions of a Poacher Illustrated before going on to write

before going on to write 23 enoromously successful books for children

lyrical evocation of the physical and emotional devastation of the First World War

Although he is considered by many to be the most serious and the most experimental of the contemporary Irish poets

the Walshs of the Loire

Hurtling between friendships

Confessions of a Poacher Illustrated before going on to writeThis book is a vivid series of autobiographical sketches that describe Connell's early life among the Slieve Blooms and his move to London's East End. At weekends he sallies forth with his companions and beloved lurcher Nellie in quest of game: hare, pheasant, rabbit, partridge and salmon most of it illegally trapped, snared and shot. He encounters magistrates and landlords, evoking a hierarchical late Victorian world in which town and country merge,