CONAL CREEDON TG4 Imeall Arts show.

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Conal creed on reading from his novel - Passion Play
This extract is the final passage of the book, and is read live on the site specific location of Bell's Field over looking Cork City, Ireland -- the location where the selected extract is set.
PASSION PLAY -- [a novel by Cónal Creedon]
"The novel's interior is much indebted to Joyce. The way Creedon combines the child-centred perspective of Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha! with the tough teenage world of the Commitments and the domestic cruelty of The Woman who Walked into Doors is ambitious and effective. His exposition of his characters' thought processes owes much to Flann O' Brien's skewed sophistication and Patrick McCabe's scabrous vision as to an earlier prototype of Seán O' Casey's Joxer. Creedon has found a form all of his own."
C.L. Dallat -- The Times Literary Review [TLS]
Creedon can create characters, not just mouthing amusing philosophical meanderings, not just cold abstractions, these are creations of Creedon's great humanity. It is essential that I tell you here that you must ﬁ nish this book. A wonderful inventive comedy."
Tom Widger -- The Sunday Tribune
"It's one of those books where it often feels inappropriate to either laugh or cry, at times surreal, frequently hilarious, often poignant but never, ever dull -- The reader enters the twilight zone." U Magazine
In My Opinion one of the finest novelists to emerge in Ireland. Passion Play is terrific. Do yourself a favour -- go out and buy a copy of this book.
First Edition TV
I Thought so much of this was so good. I haven't been as impressed by a book in a long time Irish or otherwise. The sheer vitality of Passion Play is wonderful.
Declan Lynch -- Imprint RTE TV.
I think he's fantastically skilled as a writer, a wonderful read -- it came as a huge surprise. The whole think worked amazingly well."
Kathy Sheridan -- Imprint RTE TV.
The characters blend into a technical stew and keep you laughing, even though you know unfolding events are desperately sad. The people stay with you, their situations desperately real, so implausible they are possible and probable -- you are invited to suspend disbelief and follow, an invitation worth having.
Tattler Magazine.
One to watch, this book is by turns mystical, tragic, funny and life affirming, a misture of the resolutely down-to-earth, the visionary and the absurd. Creedon's star is certainly in the ascendant."
Sunday Independent.