Teddy Delaney's celebrated biography of growing up on the Lower Glanmire Road in Cork City during those heady years from 1951 to 1964 has long been out of print. This augmented re-edition extends the adventure through his teenage years to 1969, when he left Cork for Maynooth.

We accompany him on his liberating journey, by the way of Donogh O'Malley's programme of free education, his sporting achievements, the nurturing of his creative talents, his road to Damascus experience in the West Kerry Gaeltacht and the realization of his vocation.

This additional fascinating personal revelation of adolescent development during the rock 'n' roll 1960's chronicles the journey through the transformative influences of The Second Vatican Council, The Civil Rights Movement and the Cultural Revolution of the years that rocked the world.

Teddy Delaney is a retired academic who has published extensively on aspects of Irish language literature, including award winning academic works, on the Innti poets of Cork (2011) and the Diaries of Seán Ó Ríordáin (2014). He is also an award winning poet as Gaeilge, and has published six volumes of poetry to date.