Peter Costello
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, courtesy of the Kerry Writers Museum. Poems for Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s Best-Loved Children (Mercier Press, €12.99) Light verse appeals to us all, but especially to children. And this little book by poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice, reveals him, in a more unbuttoned mode than usual. Once a national school teacher deeply attached to his students and indeed to his own children and grandchildren,…
