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Section 1: "The Clancy Kid"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Barrett, Colin. Young Skins. Black Cat, 2014. Paperback.

• "The Clancy Kid" begins by establishing the setting: a small town off the coast of western Ireland (revealed in a later story to be the fictional town of Glanbeigh, Co. Mayo).

• The narrator introduces himself: "I am young, and the young do not number many here, but it is fair to say we have the run of the place" (1).

• The story opens on a Sunday evening in July, after the narrator, Jimmy Devereux, has been drinking heavily the previous two nights.

• He sits outside near the river, in Dockery's pub's smoking section, with his friend Tug Cuniffe.

• Tug is "called Manchild behind his back" (2). He is a large, unpredictable man who sometimes chooses not to take the psychiatric medication that keeps him "on an...

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