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The road from Castlebarnagh : growing up in Irish music, a memoir

Paddy O'Brien gives his account of growing up as a budding musician in County Offaly in the 1950s and 1960s. That was a time when the social life of the Irish countryside often took place around the fireplace, where stories were told and music was played. This is the story of how a young musician absorbed his surroundings while developing his own distinctive musical style

Print Book, English, ©2012
Orpen Press, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, ©2012