Songwriter Jimmy Crowley gives up Kerry retreat for switch to life in US

THE West Kerry gaeltacht retreat of singer-songwriter Jimmy Crowley is for sale as he prepares to swap Kerry’s moody landscape for the bright lights under an American sun.

The fluent Irish speaking folk singer, song writer, balladeer, troubadour and ethnographer is on the move to the next parish to the west, Amerikay.

Jimmy, described as “as Cork as crubeens,” has been visiting the Kerry gaeltacht since he was a teenager.