Listowel publican John B. Keane is an Irish institution and without doubt the country's favourite Kerryman. He has been prolific and successful in all the literary genres known to Kerrymen: from classic plays like Sive and The Field to novels such as the recently filmed Durango, poetry and songs, volumes of letters collected in The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane and More Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane, short stories and miscellaneous prose.