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Thomas F. Walsh invites the reader to share his own experiences and those of people he has encountered: the death of a loved one leads to a celebration of life; a young student spends scarce and precious money on The Complete Works of Shakespeare; in a London pub an emigrant from the west of Ireland recalls the lake of his childhood and the poem associated with it; and a mother who never went beyond primary school loves poetry and can quote Gray and Milton. In Silent Moments reflects on the importance of appreciating the present while holding on to the past and on how a happy memory can shelter us from grief.
Thomas F. Walsh, a former primary school headmaster, was born in Headford, County Galway, and his childhood there was the subject of his acclaimed memoir, Once in a Green Summer. His anthologies, Favourite Poems We Learned in School and More Favourite Poems We Learned in School (and other variations on the theme, in Irish and English) have become classics, popular all over Ireland. Thomas F. Walsh lives in Dublin and Westport, County Mayo.
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