Noel release seventh book
NOEL Sharkey’s seventh book of verse, ‘A Lover’s Tale’, is now on sale, price €5 euro.
A story set entirely in rhyme, ‘A Lover’s Tale’ is set in the Clermont and Blackrock area of Haggardstown parish during the First World War and afterwards. While the story is fictitious and details the love affair between a poor young Catholic farm labourer and a girl from a family of Ascendancy landed gentry, the narrative draws on many real events, such as the burning of Clermont House during the Irish Civil War.
‘A Lover’s Tale’ is Sharkey’s 14th publication. He has already written six collections of poetry and is the author of three history books on his native parish of Haggardstown & Blackrock, as well as several Heritage Week magazines in conjunction with Blackrock Tidy Towns.
His history and poetry books have already raised €23,445 euro for The Birches’ Alzheimer Day Care Centre and €6,490 euro towards the improvement of facilities at St. Fursey’s Church, Haggardstown, and Saint Oliver Plunkett Church, Blackrock.
Copies of ‘A Lover’s Tale’ are available at Centra, Blackrock; Pat Flanagan Mace Service Station, Dublin Road, Haggardstown, and at Roe River Books, Park Street, Dundalk, where reprinted editions of Sharkey’s first three poetry books are also on sale for €5 euro per copy.
All monies raised from sales will go towards the care of patients in The Birches’ Alzheimer Day Care Centre at Priorland Road, Dundalk.