'Cow' reproduced from Lovely is the Lee

1945

Special Collections DA977 GD98. Reproduced by permission of the Robert Gibbings Estate and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency

London: J.M. Dent and Sons

The River Lee has its source in the Sheehy Mountains in the west of County Cork and it flows east through the city of Cork itself – Gibbings thought Cork was the ‘loveliest city in the world’. Travelling to Ireland, to research Lovely is the Lee, gave Gibbings the chance to catch up with old friends and family and he was there, on and off, for a year.