The Listowel writer John B. Keane is the 1990 Kerry Person of the Year. Alasdair Jackson looks at the man and his work.

Report shows John B. Keane strolling in the street.

Books written by John B. Keane.

Extract from ‘Self Portrait’, a 1963 television interview with John B. Keane.

John B. Keane in a local grocer’s shop in Listowel.

Extract from an episode of ‘Newsbeat’, originally broadcast in 1968, featuring John B. Keane.

Interview with John B. Keane on how he would like to be remembered.

The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.

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