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Life in Kilrush, Joe Riley’s account of Kilrush in the 1940s and 50s is now available as an audiobook. The original book was published a number of years ago and he says he is delighted that it is now available in the audiobook format. “It’s the best thing I’ve ever done, I wish I had done it years ago. I got a fella, Mark Manning, he’s from the West of Ireland and has a real Irish accent, and there aren’t many books of Irish origin with a really nice, clear accent,” he told The Clare Champion. “The book has all the expressions of the people and the characters of the town from those days. You can listen to this and he brings the book alive.” On its themes, he says, “It’s about the history of Kilrush in the 40s and 50s. I was four years old when I went to Kilrush, that was 78 years ago. “I lived there until …

A BOOK depicting life in Kilrush in the 1940s is currently being made into a Hollywood film. Ghosts of Kilrush, which was written by Joe Riley who now lives in the Philippines, was published in 2003. He sold the film rights for a mere dollar. “The story in the book is very simple,” Joe explained. “You had Auntie May, whose son was murdered at St Senan’s Well. I was a little kid of four years of age. I had no mum or no dad. What ended up happening was two people mending each other. That’s what the story is about.” The book is being made into a film by Los Angeles-based Grafton Street Productions, whose executive producer is Chris Cusack. He is a former associate producer with the Disney ABC Television Group and an executive producer with Vin Di Bona Productions. “He has roots, I believe, in Clare,” Joe said. Some of the film crew were in Kilrush in early …