Mallow Heritage Centre

More than a diary of day-to-day activities on stream and lake, Gone Fishing: Anecdotes of an Angler positions angling as a recreation into the context of Denis O’Callaghan’s philosophy of life. Its pages describe the extraordinary characters met over many years, all sharing a passion for fishing and all qualified, in the words of Izaak Walton, as ‘brothers of the angle’. Redolent of life in and love of the countryside, this book tells stories of luck both good and bad, of glorious days and successful lands, all accounts that give Gone Fishing its memorable human touches.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan has long and varied experience in academic and pastoral life over half a century. A former Professor of Moral Theology at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, he is Chairman of Co. Cork VEC, parish priest of Mallow, Co. Cork and Vicar General of the Diocese of Cloyne. He is also a columnist with The Corkman and a popular presenter on County Sound Radio, a local radio station that he also helped to develop. An accomplished writer, his most recent work, Putting Hand to the Plough: A Memoir, was published by Veritas in 2007.

Cover: detail of the Black Bridge at Balllinatona, painted by David Willis of Mallow, one of the famed Willis angling family and much admired presenter of the TG4’s ‘Irish Paint Magic’. The title of the painting is: ‘Look at what I’ve caught!’