Book review: Evocative writing of the ’50s and ’60s in poet's memoir

Theo Dorgan's 'Once Was a Boy' is an account of how a sensitive boy whose curiosity with words grows into the ambition to be a writer

Theo Dorgan’s memoir is a reliable account of the Irish education system in the past.

• Once Was a Boy 
• Theo Dorgan 
• Dedalus Press, hb €20/ pb €12.50