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My Beautiful Obsession - Chasing the Kerry Dream
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Artikel-Nr:
9781848899827
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
317
Autor:
Weeshie Fogarty
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A compelling account of the life of Weeshie Fogarty, an award-winning sports broadcaster with Radio Kerry. Into this memoir he weaves a tale of life as a psychiatric nurse in a Victorian-style mental hospital and captures the importance of football in a Kerry's youngster's life in the 1950s and his dreams of playing with Kerry in Croke Park.
A fascinating account of the life and career of Weeshie Fogarty, describing the passion and all-consuming obsession with football in Kerry and capturing the importance of the sport in the life of a youngster in Killarney in the 1950s. After his dream of playing with Kerry in Croke Park comes true, Weeshie becomes an intercounty referee and experiences the trauma of assault. Some secrets of Kerry football are revealed and some controversial moments. Today, he is an award-winning sports broadcaster with Radio Kerry. Into this memoir he weaves an account of life as a psychiatric nurse in a Victorian-style mental hospital.