With Barry Flanagan: Travels Through Time and SpainWith Barry Flanagan is a vivid account of a friendship that evolved into a working relationship when Richard McNeff became spontaneous fixer (Flanagans description) of the sculptors show held in June 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Ibiza, where they were both living. McNeff was to gain a privileged insight into the sculptors singular personality and eccentric working methods, learning to decipher his memorably surreal turns of phrase and to

‘This is a book of departure

and had four children

son of Luachain

Lennox Robinson

Part IV sketches with vivid particularity the folk customs and material culture of the province: harvest rituals

and writes bitterly of what he saw as the betrayal of Fianna Fail’s idealistic origins by those who sought to enrich the party by cultivating big business

and close with an intrepid examination of what she calls “the gauze of mother-daughter/Love

no liveried courtiers

giving glimpses of leading scholars and commentators from Richard Ellmann to Niall Montgomery and Anthony Burgess

Le Brocquy's drawings

Several of these are collected here

This is the first biography of Denis Johnston