A Bestiary Book

Book 1	Donkey's Years
	Preface	5
Part I	Kildare
1	The Great Flood	11
2	The Keegan Boys	24
3	The Goat in the Tree	36
4	The Bogey Man	41
5	The Bowsy Murray	44
6	The Great Wall of China	53
7	The Bareback Rider	55
8	The Protestant Gate	57
9	Zeno's Cafe	60
10	Wurung	61
11	The Hand & Flower Press	62
12	Kitted Out for Killashee	67
13	A Day at the National School	73
14	The Temptress, the Eely River	75
15	That Noble Pile	82
16	The Names	89
17	A Longford Wedding, Suicide of Josef Moorkens	93
18	Starlings Invade the Nursery	97
19	Mistress Mumu & Old Jem Brady	99
20	Because We Are Catholics	101
21	The Bad Smell	103
22	Flotsam	105
23	The Bracing Air of Sodom	109
24	The Price of Land, the Great Lord, the Gollimockey Stream	122
25	The Dodo, His Habitat	128
26	The Course Record	145
27	On the Isle of Man	146
Part II	London
28	Ealing	159
29	Tea With Mr Spender	164
30	The Attic	168
31	Billy	172
32	The Ice-Cream Factory	174
33	Galustian & Co.	176
34	Your Life Before Me	180
35	The Pond	182
36	The Ghost of Elwyn Anders	185
37	From Fiume to Old Ragusa	189
Part III	South Africa
38	The Shore of Africa	195
39	Touring with the Puppets	199
40	The Child of Storm	205
Part IV	Dun Laoghaire
41	The Gentleman Rider	211
42	The Hospital by the Sea	220
43	Mortuary Chapel	232
44	Sedna	237
Appendix	(Kildare): Farsoonerite Fears, Preverbal Chaos, Undertow of Time, the Mulligrubs	243
Book 2	Dog Days
Part I	First Love
1	The Happy Hours	259
2	Sirius Rising	264
3	Stolen Kisses	266
4	Philippa's Aged Parents	267
5	The Bouncing Balls	268
6	The Undertaker of Aungier Street	269
7	On Being Whirled Away	270
8	The Grafton Picture House and Restaurant	273
9	An Aged Barber	276
10	The Old Flame on Butt Bridge	277
Part II	No. 11 Springhill Park
	Preamble	281
11	My Father Dies	281
12	57 Beskidenstrasse	286
13	Los Alamos	289
Part III	Ballymona Lodge, 1985
14	Aboard the SS St Columba	295
15	The Return	300
16	Santa Cruz	302
17	Dream-Houses	303
18	Cycle of the Hours	309
19	In the Hall of the Mountain King	312
20	Some Suggestions for Brightening Up the Home	313
21	My First Arrival	315
22	Wicklow Town	316
23	Interrogatory	318
24	The Bum Bailiff	321
25	Fumes	323
26	'Cash' Murphy Appears	326
27	My Second Arrival	329
28	The Haughty Horsewoman	329
29	Lambing Time	331
30	A Bat at Evening	332
31	Anastasia and the Seven Dervorgillas	336
32	Silent Love	340
33	The Worst Choice	342
34	Davis and Demons	343
35	The King and Queen of Spain	345
36	The Camarero Miguel Lopez Rojas	348
37	Epistolary: 1974-78	349
38	The Dodo in London	353
39	The Classic Cinema in Baker Street	355
40	Mornings in the Dewy Dell	357
41	The Finn	358
42	'Cash' Up for Sentencing	360
43	Year Ending	360
Part IV	The Tomb of Dreams
44	The Trinity Professor	367
45	Walking in the Dream	370
46	Native Son	375
47	Down in the Country	377
Part V	Ballymona Lodge, 1986
48	Brittas Bay	383
49	To Arms! To Arms!	386
50	The Old Flame	390
51	The Far Horizon	391
52	Stardust	394
53	Lammas	395
54	James	397
55	The Roscommon Fairies	403
56	Big Mick (Ned's Racist joke)	404
57	The Screaming Horrors	405
58	Titanic	408
59	October Footing	412
60	Dusky	413
61	Grey Days	414
62	Verveen	416
63	The Mangle	417
64	A Hanging	419
65	On Cuesta del Cielo	420
66	The Road to Aranjuez	423
67	Saul Bellow Reading at TCD	426
68	An Incident on the Road to Pontoon	427
69	A Walk to Greystones	428
70	An Official Visit: Garda Reynolds	429
71	Halley's Comet	432
72	Dervorgilla at Home	434
73	The Eye and Ear Hospital	436
74	The Year Ending	437
75	The Road to Arklow	440
	Epilogue and Epigraphs	441
Book 3	The Whole Hog
	Prologue	447
Part I	Only Family Matters
1	A Bit of Strange	451
2	Largo: Three or Four Miseries, 1956-85	452
3	Forgive My Silence	454
4	The Genesis of Langrishe, Go Down	458
5	Ordeal at Mealtimes	461
6	Mainly Semantics	473
7	An Unwelcome Visitor Calls	475
8	The Handbell and the Gong	477
9	An Unwelcome Visit Recalled	479
10	A Fragment of the True Cross	481
11	A Rude Country Habitation	487
12	Brother Bun and the London Labour Mart	493
13	Ancestral Voices	499
14	Harry Allen, J. Pierpoint Morgan and Luis Bunuel	502
15	The Monk in the Cornfield (Where There Was Nobody)	507
16	Ah, Those Moonlit Revels!	512
17	Roll On, Ye Mighty River, Roll!	513
18	Black Bucks Vain of Their Dicks	519
19	Roryamours 1956-99	524
20	The Hoax that Joke Bilked	525
21	The Anaya-Toledos of Mexico City	526
22	The Shapely Flanks of Rita Hayworth (The Lady from Shanghai)	527
Part II	Foreign Faces and Places
23	Voyage	535
24	The Jacaranda Street Nudist	538
25	The Sharpeville Massacre, 1960	546
26	The Lazy Azores, 1960	549
Part III	Nerja in the 1960s
27	Ominous Auguries	557
28	Mrs Harriet Deck	561
29	A Child's Funeral	565
30	Moody, Fenning, Kramer and McCracken	568
31	The Way She Walked	570
32	Callus, Alas!	572
33	Can After Can	575
34	Kampen Nact-Strand	576
35	Harriet	578
Part IV	Berlin Divided, Munich Mordfest
36	Im Doll	583
37	Some Places She Took Me	584
38	In a Strange Sort of Time	585
39	The Giantess and the Guardsman	587
40	Sommerspiele: September 1972 in Munich	591
41	One Thrust and He Was In	601
Part V	Danish Blue
42	On the Rorvig Ferry	605
43	Rorvig	606
44	The Ancient Moats	607
45	But Why Kandinsky?	611
46	Borges and I	614
47	In a Swedish Forest	616
48	My Everyday	618
49	On the Beatch with Petrushka	622
50	Linguistics	624
51	Such Delightful Copulatives!	627
52	A Malaga Morning	628
53	Kronborg	629
54	Ronda	633
55	Petrushka	636
56	The Floating Trousseau	637
57	Diary, April 1975	641
58	Last Letter	643
Part VI	Contretemps at Cranley Gardens
59	Events Leading to the Hill-Anders Divorce, Decree Nisi and Absolute	647
60	In the Woods	651
Part VII	Down Mexico Way
61	Blood and Sand	669
62	The Aztec Look	673
63	The Zaca Sails Again!	679
64	The Jogger on Coronado Shore	682
65	The Martinez Couple	687
Part VIII	How the Century Ends
66	The Three Brothers	691
67	In the Long Ago	693
68	The Great Battle	698
69	Sir Walter Raleigh and the Cockadoodledoo	702
70	Fisher Street and Environs	705
71	St Multose Cemetery and the Commogue Marsh	710
72	The Gangrenous Hand	717
73	Warning Shadows	721
74	Countess Markiewicz and the Siege of Derry	724
75	The Americanisation of Old Ireland	728
76	When Rory First Tasted Wiener Schnitzel	731
77	The Regional Hospital, Cork	734
78	Adieu in the Form of a Letter to Mrs Mary Alice Simpson (widow) of Chevy Chase, Maryland	735
79	The Old Moon with the New Moon in Her Arms	737
80	How the Century Ended	739
	Epilogue	741