Patrick Joseph Purcell

Life
1914- ; b. Kilkenny; worked as editor of Guinness Book of Hurling Records; his novels incl. Handrahan’s Daughter (1942); A Keeper of Swans (1944-46); The Quiet Man (1945) - distinct from Maurice Walshs novel - and Fiddlers’ Green (1949). IF2 DIW DIL2.