Property of note in Ring of Kerry

Martin Kraut has a musical connection to The Dubliners and a symphonic home standing on lyrical acres, Tommy Barker reports

Property of note in Ring of Kerry

THE Dubliners’ fiddle player John Sheehan, he of the flowing white mane and beard, changed German-born Martin Kraut’s life 40 years ago. So, it was with a touch of serendipity that when Martin actually met his hero five years ago, he was able to acknowledge this impact in an appropriate way — with a fiddle, steeped in Guinness.

There are, one suspects, several meandering threads during this German Kerry resident’s life, but violins are a bit of a background theme.

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