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Despite these writerly accolades and comparisons, Healy's writing was consistently overlooked for the major literary prizes and, partly as a result of this neglect, he has not yet received proper international attention for his varied and ambitious body of work. Outside of Ireland, Healy is probably better known as a novelist, but he was also an accomplished poet, short story writer, playwright, actor, and screenwriter.
A generous and gregarious man, Healy was also a great literary enabler: Indeed, one of the hallmarks of Healy's own work is its unalloyed celebration of community spirit, allied to a strong social conscience. However, Healy's prolific fluency across a range of forms and genres perhaps made him difficult to pigeonhole, and this creative eclecticism may have served to complicate his critical reputation.
Moreover, Healy was always fascinated by borderlands and liminal states of mind, and he frequently transgressed the conventional boundaries between poetry, drama and fiction, and between fiction and reality. In all of Healy's novels and stories there is a productive tension between the representation of complex lives and events, and the modernist desire to find new ways of expressing the rich subjectivity of these lives. Though usually set in small provincial towns, Healy's fictional worlds perpetually approach the edge of myth, and his vivid sense of place is rendered with an almost shamanistic intensity.
These strange landscapes and fractured lives can sometimes appear rather alien to metropolitan critics, which may well account for some of the more tentative and confused responses to his fiction.
Naming the Natural World by Tina Kelley | Poetry Foundation
Consequently, part of the motivation behind publishing this volume is to address the extraordinary neglect of one of Ireland's most gifted and industrious modern writers. The aim is to acknowledge Healy's immense creative achievement while also establishing an initial body of critical work, drawn from a variety of vantage points. The collection includes a broad spectrum of writerly responses—short memoirs, poetry, and commentary-reportage— and an array of literary-critical perspectives covering the entire range of Healy's work: Many of the writerly conrributions in this volume blend memoir with critical commentary.
In Neil Jordan's "Foreword," for example, the exciting emergence of Healy's story "Banished Misfortune" is remembered for its "frothy, bubbling, ironic, and almost spookily magical" language, and as a moment which marked the beginning of many years of mutual engagement and friendship between the two writers.
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A fusion of critique and remembrance drives other contributions, as in Timothy O'Grady's "Only myself, said Ciinla," which spirals outwards from Healy's funeral to offer fulsome testimony to the significance of Healy's oeuvre: Similarly, Patrick McCabe offers us a glimpse into "Catweazle" Healy in Cavan, Dublin, Brixton, Granard, and Longford town, all the while marvelling at the uniqueness of his persona; Tess Gallagher's memories of Healy's unique presence revolve around a sense of what she calls "sea-strangeness" a term borrowed from Sean O Riordain ; and Ronan Sheehan blends his reminiscences of an early meeting with Healy while offering insights into the story "Banished Misfortune" and a collaborative translation of Catullus.
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