Return of the Native
HE redoubtable Mr. Robert Gibbings (who, as readers of The Listener are well aware, is 19 stone, Irish, bearded, and a writer and engraver) made a series of recorded readings from his own book Lovely is the Lee, which have now come to 3YA. In the book his descriptions
of the hospitality, almost terrifying in its spontaneity, his accounts of the local idiom, local folk-lore and local customs of birth, marriage and death, these were full of understanding and respect and without anvthing
even remotely like condescension; yet one did seem to see Mr. Gibbings holding on to his hat, a stranger in a strange land. But once you hear his voice you realise that he is by blood, bone, breath and tongue, one with those of whom he speaks; when he tells stories of the oddities of County Galway he is not the wondering stranger. These oddities are to him simply the way those of his world choose to behave, and if we choose to look at them across a gulf he is looking back at us from the further side. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 15
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186Return of the Native New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 15
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