Gabriel Fitzmaurice describes the selection process for his book of favourite poems of Munster

If she’d been fat, now, that would have been real news. But there won’t be a fat Rose, writes Victoria White

THE “pure crystal fountain” that inspired the lyrics of the famous song The Rose of Tralee is more than a figment of romantic imagination.

IT’S famed in song and story, but how many people know the exact site of the pure crystal fountain referred to in The Rose of Tralee?