A short story written for broadcasting by L. A. G. Strong and read by the author
As all L. A. G. Strong 's admirers must know, he is at his best when painting the humour of Irish country life. Though born in Devon, he is almost an Irishmanhis father is half Irish, his mother wholly so-and as a boy he used to spend two months every summer with his grandparents in Glasthule, Co. Dublin. I used to penetrate the poorest hovels, ride in the Wicklow Mountains, and fish for conger eels ', he says. And the fruit of all this experience will be found in the novel, The Garden ', and in many short storie;, of which Clonbocketty ' is one of the most amusing.