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Irish director Jim Sheridan turned
The Field into an award-winning film starring Richard Harris for which he received an Academy Award nomination. The great Limerick-born actor died just a few months after John B Keane in 2002.
Mr Keane is now celebrated with a special statue to his memory in Listowel which also hosts an annual literary festival. There is a special section in the Kerry Writers Museum dedicated to John B Keane.
Last October it emerged that a long-forgotten copybook containing his early work was given to the Keane family.
It is believed the copybook dates from around 1947, when John B was in his late teens, a period when he focused on writing poetry, much of it inspired by the local Kerry countryside, history and folklore. He was particularly taken with incidents in Kerry relating to the War of Independence.