Memories and Make-Believe

In Memories And Make-Believe, fictional stories sit alongside memoir and interviews, written over a period of about 30 years.

Lovers, musicians, rogues and storytellers inhabit the book.

Christy Moore and Moving Hearts mingle with Makem & Clancy and Joe Lynch.

Joe spent many summers in Mallow, the homestead of his mother.

Canon Sheehan is celebrated in the book to coincide with his Centenary Year.

There are memories of meeting John B. Keane along with glimpses from the Pilgrim Players captured here.

Thomas Davis Pipe Band is recalled along with tall tales from the local band scene in the seventies.

Just enjoy! From Charleville, you will meet Johnny Barrett, the One-Man- Band, who played all over Ireland and abroad and there are profiles of music legends Lonnie Donegan, Fats Waller and Mitch Miller.

Gerard has been published in magazines, such as "Ireland's Own" as well as in newspapers and has also read on the RTE Sunday Miscellany programme.

Memories and Make-Believe is a book to be dipped into, as it contains stories of one or two pages as well as longer pieces to savour at your leisure.