It’s 1957.

And Noel Heavey’s world is about to change. The family move from Moorefield on the edge of a small town, to Clongorey, on the edge of a big bog. Oh, the ’60s might not have changed Clongorey, but the hop in nearby Newbridge town changed Noel. Always packed for any adventure, when first he heard the Rolling Stones he took off like a bull calf emerging from winter quarters into a haggart of bright sunshine.

These are stories hewn from his first thirty years.