By Ray Cashman
Ray Cashman, who has been interviewing McGrath for greater than fifteen years, demonstrates how Packy Jim adorns day-by-day dialog with tales of ghosts and fairies, heroic outlaws and hateful landlords. Such folklore is a boundless source that he makes use of to return to grips with the earlier and current, this international and the following. His tales exhibit an elaborate worldview that's either idiosyncratic and shared—a testomony to person intelligence and skill, and a window into Irish vernacular culture.
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