In My Father's House

Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne

Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne (Gallery Press 2000)editor Peter Fallon. First published Anna Liva 1991.

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Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne
© The Gallery Press

Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne

Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne (Gallery Press 2000)editor Peter Fallon. First published Anna Liva 1991.

© The Gallery Press

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Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne In My Father's House is a biographical memoir chronicling Seán's childhood in St John's Park in the 1960s, bringing this era to life for many Waterford people. It was a best seller when it appeared in 1991

Isabel Healy of the Cork Examiner interviewed Seán on 31st October 1991, the week that In My Father's House was published. She wrote; "In My Father's House is the story of Seán Dunne's childhood. It is the beautifully crafted literary work of a poet honest and unsentimental and disarmingly simple, it is rich in smells, in characters, the traits of a large family and resonant with place names; Poleberry, Ballytruckle, Mooncoin, The Folly...It should be listened to rather than read".

Healy added Seán is a "hard working writer, disciplined to the point of ruthlessness. In My Father's House was originally a quarter of a million words, but in six drafts he honed it down to 120 pages".

Seán himself added; "In My Father's House is an attempt to keep in touch with the boy within the man. Although I write constantly a lot goes in the bin. There are too many bad books being written in Ireland at the moment. I keep only ten poems a year".

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