Rte Crossword 17 For July 20018

[lorus]

22a Our man Flynn duly lived up to his name. Kavanagh clue ? (5)

[fiction-factory]

Any letters please lorus or are you just starting?

[Davemano]

Errol Flynn.
Errol Kavanagh was a notable Pilot. ??

[fiction-factory]

Patrick Kavanagh wrote a book called Tarry flynn if that fits the letters when you get some

[Captain2]

Well 'tarry' is the answer to 22a in RTE40 - would ask lorus if his title is incorrect but not much point because we never get a reply, nor any letters placed.

[Davemano]

ff - looks more like, just don't see why 'Our man'.

[ducksie]

it was Our Man because it was a kind of autobiography by Patrick Kavanagh, he was the Tarry Flynn really in 1930's rural Ireland

[Davemano]

Thanks for that^^^

[ducksie]

You're welcome Dave, one of my fave Irish authors and poets :)


Nice to see Lorus back :)

[elliemay1]

...to tarry means to loiter, his character is like that, thus he lives up to his name

[ducksie]

He did tend to loiter, if you read Enniskeen road he is with his bicycle watching all his peers heading to the dance but he's not joining them, always a watcher, I suppose, that's why his monument is sitting on a Canal Bank Walk - a sad man really I think - his grand niece is ever so funny though, Catherine Lynch