The Crying of the Wind: Ireland

This was a magical little read! The descriptions not just clinical, but told with feeling from the experience. It felt more like talking to a friend, or reading a private journal than a travel journal. It gives one a true yearning to spend a spring in that quaint country side, to visit the same places, stay in the same inn. Not only that, but it seamlessly takes you back in time, allowing you to forget that so much of the journey has been erased or withered by time and age. Definitely a worthwhile and enlightening read!

Bought as gift...recipient delighted

Remarks on the Cornish book duplicated: an overdue reprint; and supplied by Blackwell at a very reasonable price.

It's difficult to know why Stewart Lee's introduction is so fulsome in its praise. Occasionally she has some interesting things to say about Gaelic myths and history, but her prose is dated and not very well written.

Divine .. This book is uplifting in an exquisitely quiet way. Evocative , descriptions of Ireland 's land and its meaning are coupled with intelligent, insightful and, at times ,foretelling assessment of 1950s Irish , West Brit and all past inhabitants

A journey magically told of Ireland