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When actor, playwright and comedian Seamus ORourke first published Standing in Gaps in 2020 it found a wide audience amongst readers in rural Ireland. With a distinct talent for seeing the absurd in the ordinary, mundane lives of people who had nothing better to be at and making it hilarious, Standing in Gaps manages to turn back time and transport the reader to a place where everything moved slowly - and in the Leitrim of the 60s, 70s and 80s, that means really slowly.In this memoir about family, people and time, ORourke finds diamond-tipped-needles in bales of really bad hay, providing laughter and stories of mayhem for his many fans.
When actor, playwright and comedian Seamus ORourke first published Standing in Gaps in 2020 it found a wide audience amongst readers in rural Ireland. With a distinct talent for seeing the absurd in the ordinary, mundane lives of people who had nothing better to be at and making it hilarious, Standing in Gaps manages to turn back time and transport the reader to a place where everything moved slowly - and in the Leitrim of the 60s, 70s and 80s, that means really slowly.In this memoir about family, people and time, ORourke finds diamond-tipped-needles in bales of really bad hay, providing laughter and stories of mayhem for his many fans.