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

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.