Read Ireland Book Reviews, July 2001

C.S. Andrews 2
Gerry Adams
John Banville
Anne Barnett
Tim Pat Coogan
Julie Craig
James S. Donnelly, Jr.
Terence Dooley
T. Ryle Dwyer
Sean Duffy
John Edwards
Jennifer Johnston
Vincent Kearney
Benedict Kiely
Dudley Levistone
Des MacHale
Joe Merrick
James Morrissey
Sean O’Callaghan
Siobhan Parkinson
Eamon Phoenix
Robert Lloyd Praeger
David Pritchard
Chris Ryder 2
A.T.Q. Stewart
Eamonn Sweeney
C.W. Sullivan III
Marilyn Taylor
William Trevor
Adrian Weal
Kenneth Wiggins

Tans, Terror and Troubles: Kerry’s Real Fighting Story 1913-23 by T. Ryle Dwyer
What happened in Kerry during the War of Independence and the Civil War has been the subject of controversy. Although Eoin O’Duffy - the chief of staff of the Free State Army - said that ‘Kerry’s entire record is the Black and Tan struggle consisted in shooting an unfortunate soldier the day of the Truce’, some of the earliest operations of the War of Independence took place there or involved Kerrymen. The guns for the planned national uprising of 1916 were supposed to be landed in Kerry, and Roger Casement was arrested there on Good Friday 1916. Moreover, although Eamon de Valera is usually described as the last commandant to have surrendered during the Easter Rising and the only one not to have been executed afterwards, a Kerryman, Thomas Ashe, also survived as was, in fact, the last commandant to lay down his arms - and the only one to achieve his military objective. Since ‘Kerry’s Fighting Story’ was published in 1947, no attempt has been made to cover the period of the War of Independence and the subsequent Troubles in the county. Unfortunately, that book was a rushed production and did not touch on the events of the Civil War. This book gives the full story of events in Kerry during those dark days.

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Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason by Adrian Weal
In the twentieth century, only four British citizens were convicted of the ancient crime of high treason and only two of these - Roger Casement and John Amery - suffered what was, until 1998, the only penalty allowed by law: execution. During the First World War, Casement, a retired British consular official knighted by King Edward VII for his humanitarian work in Africa and South America, attempted to recruit a brigade of Irish prisoners of war to liberate Ireland after the German victory on the Western front. In the Second World War, Amery, the son of Churchill’s Secretary of State for India, tried to recruit a legion of British soldiers into the Waffen-SS to fight against Bolshevism on the Eastern Front. But even a cursory examination of their crimes reveals both men to have been inept and ineffectual traitors, more of a burden to their German sponsors than an asset. And the full weight of state power, legitimate and illegitimate, was brought to bear to ensure that they were hanged - even though the government knew that Casement was a confused, naEFve idealist and a barely controlled compulsive pederast, and that Amery was a psychopathic, sexually bizarre ‘moral imbecile’, incapable of understanding the concepts of right and wrong. This book is the first serious historical study to use the newly released MI5 personal files on the two men, and the author illuminates one of the darkest corners of recent history.

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The Decline of the Big House in Ireland by Terence Dooley
As late as the 1860s, Irish landlords were still the wealthy elite of the country. During the relative affluence of the post-Famine years, they continued to spend lavishly on the upkeep of their estates. However, for a variety of reasons, by the late nineteenth century, landlords had begun to find their disposable income greatly diminished. With the advent of the Land League, they faced increasing pressure to overturn the old ways of land management. The First World War proved an important watershed, and had a huge psychological effect. Big-house social life was thrown into disarray, and the fabric of a way of life began to disintegrate. The revolutionary years 1919-1923 proved to be a further catalyst in the decline of the big house, and the foundation of the Irish Free State finally spelt the end for landlordism in Ireland. This book in unique in its examination of the reasons for the economic, social and political demise of the Irish landlord class. The author’s fascinating investigation provides an insight into the lives, attitudes and outlooks of the landed class, and examines the motivation behind the financial, social and political decisions that an ever-changing world forced them to make.

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Fenian Diary: Denis B. Cashman on board the Hougoumont 1867-1868 edited by C.W. Sullivan III
In 1867, Fenianism in Ireland was at its peak. The English, desperate to stem the tide of rebellion, banished convicted Fenians, along with thousands of common criminals, to exile in Australia. ‘The Hougoumont’ was the last official convict ship to Australia. In the Autumn of 1867, she sailed from England. Among the Fenians on board was young Denis B. Cashman of Waterford, convicted of felony treason and sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. On the long journey, Cashman kept a diary. Now, almost 150 years later, this diary is available in all its rich, poignant detail.

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The Way That I Went by Robert Lloyd Praeger
First published in 1937, this book represented a lifetime’s exploration of the countryside - walking hills and bogs, swimming through flooded caverns, staying out all night on islands, sifting fossil bones and exploring cattle-tramped tombs. This was a time when conservation was still in the future, farmers welcomed rambling strangers and the countryside was largely tourist-free. The book crackles with the excitement and perplexity aroused by our then heritage of tombs and ring forts. This book offers an escape to the contemplation of nature in ‘a time of rush and clatter, of fuss and noise and glare.’ Michael Viney, who has written an introduction to this edition, puts the book in context and relates it to contemporary issues such as conservation, ecology and farming practices.

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The Shape of Irish History by A.T.Q. Stewart
Distilling a lifetime’s distinguished scholarships, this meditation on the nature of history challenges hitherto sacrosanct assumptions about Ireland’s past. In an exploration of the essential structure of what is called ‘Irish history’, Stewart looks at some unlighted areas and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, he argues, the information has not been percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience. Criticising his own profession for purporting to be scientific while largely ignoring the implications of, for example, scientific archaeology, Stewart issues a characteristically bold challenge to received views. The result is a landmark book - elegant, stylish and effortlessly erudite - that lets some much-needed light and air into the closed-shop of Irish history.

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On the Verge of Want compiled and edited by James Morrissey
This book is a unique insight into living conditions along Ireland’s western seaboard in the late 19th century. In the later part of the 19th century, most of the inhabitants of the West of Ireland eked out a meagre existence in conditions proximate to pathetic. Homes were akin to hovels as parents and offspring shared cramped accommodation with farm animals. Incomes were paltry - ranging from less than 10 pounds per year to just under 50 pounds for families. In many cases, receipts shaded expenditure by a few shillings. This book is filled with original documents which record the often appalling conditions which prevailed in the West of Ireland just over a century ago.

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Anatomy of a Siege: King John’s Castle, Limerick, 1642 by Kenneth Wiggins
King John’s Castle survives today as a impressively well-preserved Anglo-Norman fortress in a commanding position along the eastern edge of the River Shannon. In the early months of 1642, when the Munster army of the Irish rebellion was admitted to Limerick, the Protestant and Anglo-Irish citizenry fled to the king’s castle for protection, and were immediately besieged. To breach the masonry the besiegers used miners to make tunnels for the placing of timber props, ready for firing, underneath the foundations. The castle’s defenders reacted by opening countermines to intercept the encroaching miners, hoping to save the wall from ruin. The use of specialised ‘military mining’ techniques of this type was exceedingly rare in Ireland, and fundamental to the exceptional events of this siege. This book brings together detailed documentary sources and unique archaeological discoveries in an expert assessment of this siege. It is the first book entirely devoted to King John’s Castle, Limerick, and also the first on the siege of an Irish castle. The book incorporates plans, photographs, and reproductions to provide a well-illustrated and thorough analysis. It embraces the drama central to the story, while highlighting methods and skills seldom witnessed in Irish siege warfare.

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Medieval Dublin II edited by Sean Duffy
This book contains the proceedings of a second public symposium held by the Friends of Medievel Dublin in 2000 and it would be difficult to overemphasise their importance. Margaret Gowen’s paper on archaeological excavations at the church of St. Michael le Pole reveals the earliest known evidence from the Christian era for human activity in the environs of the later town. Ann Lynch and Conleth Manning’s findings from their extensive excavations at Dublin Castle in the mid-1980s are given a detailed airing here for the first time. We now know a good deal more about the town’s earliest earthen defences, the Norse and later Norman town walls and mural towers, thanks to Clare Walsh’s excavations at Ross Road, also here discussed. The ups and downs of the career of Geoffrey Morton, the colourful mayor of Dublin in 1303-4, are meticulously pieced together by Philomena Connolly. Bernadette Williams demonstrates the contribution to chronicle-writing in medieval Dublin made by its Dominican friars. J.F. Lydon discusses the extent to which Anglo-Norman Dublin adapted the town’s earlier Norse structures and administration. The classification of the ethnic background of the latter community is the pioneering project upon which Benedikt Hallgrimsson and Barra O Donnabhain have embarked, and they present some of their remarkable data in this volume; the latter also examines some intriguing evidence for the practice of cranial surgery in medieval Dublin.

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The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly, Jr.
This book provides an accessible, comprehensive account of the Irish famine, combining narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary illustrations. It furnishes vivid insights into the misery of the famine and the additional nightmare of the mass evictions that followed. Professor Donnelly aims to answer the numerous vexed questions which have surrounded the subject ever since. Was Britain guilty of genocide against the Irish people, or was British culpability more complex? Could the disaster have been considerably reduced in its dimensions, even if not averted altogether? Scholarly and up-to-date, this book is required reading for anyone with an interest in Ireland or in the way natural disasters and government responses to them can lead to the destiny of nations.

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7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon’s Studio, with foreword by John Edwards and photographs by Perry Ogden
Francis Bacon moved into 7 Reece Mews in London’s South Kensington in 1961. It was to remain his principal home and studio until his death in 1992. Prior to the removal of the studio to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin in 1998, access was granted to photographer Perry Ogden to produce this record of the house and its contents. He captured every part of the small building’s hidden and untouched interior. In the studio itself, thirty years of artistic endeavour had accumulated unchecked: the slashed, discarded canvases scattered across the floor; the brushes, rags and tins encrusted with paint; the doors and walls used as impromptu palettes; the piles of photographs of friends and models; the crumpled and torn pages of magazines and books that served as visual stimulus for his work; the notes, sketches and ideas jotted down and then cast aside; the last unfinished painting on the easel. For some of those close to Bacon in his lifetime, the studio was an heroic statement, a work of art in its own right, created over many years to distil and give form to his aesthetic intentions. Now in this astonishing book we are invited to take a privileged look around his private space, to become intimate witnesses to the amazing conditions in which he lived and worked, to gain unrivalled insights into how, why and what he painted.

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Dublin Made Me by C.S. Andrews
This book is the first of two celebrated volumes of autobiography, originally published in 1979, and describes in loving detail the pre-independence Dublin in which the author grew up and provides a vivid participant’s account of the War of Independence and the Civil War. Born in 1901, Andrews lived with his family in Summerhill until 1910, when they moved to the distant suburb of Terenure. Andrews’ account of the two Dublins of his youth is an unsentimental urban pastoral, sensuous and immediate. He describes his schooling with the nuns in Dominick Street, with Patrick Pearse for an unhappy year in St. Enda’s, and then with the Christian Brothers in Synge Street. And he gives a rich, detailed account of his apprenticeship in Irish republicanism, from his pre-1916 experiences as a youthful ‘camp-follower of the Volunteers’ to his active service in Dublin in the War of Independence and his dangerous days as adjutant to Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War. Andrews writes dispassionately of internment and hunger-strikes, and of the bitter divide between the pro- and anti-Treaty sides, once comrades-in-arms. This book is a unique account of an ordinary childhood transformed by war and revolution.

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Man of No Property by C.S. Andrews
This is an extraordinary memoir, originally published in 1982, in which Andrews gives a personal history of his varied and distinguished career in public service to the Irish state. The early chapters cover what were, for Andrews and his fellow republicans, difficult years under the government of Cumann na nGaedheal. Andrews describes the ambience of University College Dublin, where he resumed his studies after the end of the Troubles, and writes with insight and sensitivity of the founding of Fianna Fail, which forced anti-Treaty republicans to decide whether to accept the established political order. Andrews chose the constitutional path, and after Fianna Fail came to power in 1932 his working life, which had begun modestly in the Irish Tourist Association and the ESB, was transformed by his appointment as managing director of the Turf Development Board, later Bord na Mona. This visionary enterprise, undertaken in the face of ridicule from those who saw the bogs as an irremediable symbol of backwardness, was immensely successful, and Andrews gave to it nearly three decades in the prime of his life. This book is the plain-spoken, often controversial testament of a singular figure in twentieth-century Irish life, and is necessary reading for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the Irish state in its first half-century.

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An Irish Journal by Gerry Adams
This book contains a unique insight into recent Irish politics, covering the crucial period between September 1997 and the end of 2000. Consisting of selected articles written during that period, mostly for his regular column in the New York newspaper, The Irish Voice, these writings provide not only a revealing chronicle of public events but also an insight into his private life, and some surprisingly light and humorous moments. His reports posses a remarkable immediacy, written as they were in the midst of momentous events. From the long Unionist refusal to talk to republicans, through the tortuous negotiations of the Good Friday Agreement, to the suspension of the Executive and other crises, Gerry Adams gives an absorbing first-hand account.

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Shame MacGowan: London Irish Punk by Joe Merrick
As lead singer of The Pogues and as a solo artist, Shane MacGowan is a defining figure of modern Irish music. Among the greatest songwriters of his generation, he has infused traditional Irish folk with the spirit of punk and a bleary-eyed romanticism to create a compelling and unique musical brew. In this comprehensive study, the author traces the life of this complex figure from his childhood in Tipperary and England, through The Pogues’ success and subsequent painful break-up, before bringing the story up to date with an evaluation of MacGowan’s solo career. It is an incredible story, sometimes sad, sometimes wonderful, and often soaked in a mixture of alcohol and genius.

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Two Acres of Irish History: A Study Through Time of Friar’s Bush and Belfast 1570-1918 by Eamon Phoenix
Friar’s Bush is Belfast’s oldest Christian Site. The quality of ancient mystery surrounding this old walled graveyard at Stranmillis has long fascinated historians. There is a tradition of a link with St. Patrick and strong evidence of a medieval friary on the site. It also served as a ‘penal refuge’ for the local Catholic community up to 1769. This book traces the exciting story of Friar’s Bush and Belfast from the rich store of available evidence - artefacts, maps, letters, newspaper reports, ballads and paintings.

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The Methodists in Ireland: A Short History by Dudley Levistone
Cooney This is the story of one of the smaller Christian churches in Ireland from its introduction in the middle of the eighteenth century to the present time. Never numbering much more than 60,000 people, it has made a contribution to the life of the country greater than its numbers would have suggested.

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Chronology of Irish History compiled by David Pritchard
This book is a concisely written overview of Ireland’s major political, cultural and religious trends, presented in an easy-to-use format. This reference work provides essential historical facts, from the arrival of St. Patrick to the present day.

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See Dublin on Foot: An Architectural Walking Tour compiled by Julie Craig
This book is an extensive walking guide to the city of Dublin with selected area maps, descriptions and a unique guide to the best deals in that area. This comprehensive contemporary manual is a must for anyone touring the city on foot.

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To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O’Callaghan
Between 1652 and 1659, over 50,000 Irish men, women and children were transported to Barbados and Virginia. Until now there has been no account of what became of them. The motivation for the initial transportation of the Irish was expressed by King James I of England: ‘Root out the Papists and fill it (Ireland) with Protestants.’ The author’s search began in the library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and its files on Irish slaves. The author’s search began in the library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and its files on Irish slaves. This book documents in the history of these people, their transportation, the conditions in which they lived on the plantations as slaves or servants, and their rebellions in Barbados.

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Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor
This book is based on true events, describing the real experiences of young refugees who came to Northern Ireland during World War II.

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Breaking the Wishbone by Siobhan Parkinson
Cut off from their families, five teenagers scrape together a makeshift home for a squat. This is a story of the over-whelming difficulties facing young homeless people today.

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Collected Stories by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely is a writer of national and international status. His writing is at once quintessentially Irish and marvellously universal, and a generation of younger writers owes him an enduring debt of inspiration. This celebratory collection brings together for the first time Kiely’s short fiction written between 1963 and 1987. The stories in this volume are rich in imagination and invention, their characters unforgettable, their humour at once affectionate and incisive. Written with apparently effortless style and craft, they amply demonstrate how Kiely’s stories have become classics of the genre while at the same time expanding that genre’s horizons.

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Drumcree: The Orange Order’s Last Stand by Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney
Years of confrontation have made the word ‘Drumcree’ internationally synonymous with the worst aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict. The crisis was sparked in the summer of 1995 as the small market town of Portadown became the scene of a violent stand-off between the local lodges of the Protestant Orange Order and the Catholic residents of the Garvaghy Road - route of the Orange marchers’ traditional parade after their church service at Drumcree. This first showdown set the pattern for the confrontations that have followed every year since in the town that has been described as the ‘Vatical of Orangeism’, and the repercussions have spread beyond. In this book, two of Northern Ireland’s foremost journalists investigate how this repeated deadlock evolved into an annual crisis convulsing the whole of Northern Ireland and threatening even the nation-wide peace process itself.

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The Complete Guide to the Quite Man by Des MacHale
This book is a celebration of every aspect of the world famous film, based on a short story by Maurice Walsh, and set and filmed in the west of Ireland. It discusses the background to the film, the stars, the shooting, the screenplay, the influences, and the many legends and stories that have grown up around it. It also lists the shooting locations with dozens of detailed maps; a very comprehensive cast and crew list; hundreds of previously unseen photographs take by both amateur and professionals; a detailed analysis of every word of the dialogue; video timings of all the scenes; and above all the inside story and a thorough discussion of the whole ‘Quiet Man’ phenomenon, which have all led to one of the greatest cult movies of all time. This book is certainly ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Quiet Man.’

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Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora by Tim Pat Coogan
The total population of the island of Ireland is only five million - some 800,000 of whom describe themselves as British! - yet there are seventy million people on the planet entitled to call themselves Irish! This ground-breaking book tells their story. It is based on first-hand research in both North and South American, Africa, the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Apart from contemporary interviews with significant figures from today’s diaspora, it also explores how the Great Scattering occurred, through war, famine and dispossession. How a stricken people produced the movers and shakers, the dreamers of dreams who climbed to the world’s highest pinnacles of politics and the arts. It does full justice to the horrors which lay behind some of the emigration, but concentrates also on the extraordinary and positive experience of Irish people throughout the world. Along with the brawlers and battlers, the heroic soldiers, the passionate labour leaders, the American presidents, the Australian Prime Ministers, the founders of Latin American nations and the creators of Riverdance and U2, the Irish gave the world a caring tradition, the missionaries and the teachers who spread a message of a ‘dream born in a herdsman’s shed and the secret scriptures of the poor.’ Some died by the wayside, some successfully pitched their tents near the stars. All come to live in this vivid historical and contemporary portrait by Ireland’s most readable and most trenchant contemporary historian.

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Inside the Maze: The Untold Story of the Northern Ireland Prison Service by Chris Ryder
With the historic closure of the Maze Prison this year, this book reveals the story of one of the most turbulent battlegrounds of the Ulster troubles, and examines how Northern Ireland’s prison service - the third arm of the security forces after the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British Army - has survived the years of conflict and made its mark on the province’s future. This book records how the Northern Ireland Prison Service struggled to cope with the volatile forces it had to contain. After the outbreak of the Troubles in 1968, the hastily built Maze Prison became a university of terrorism, where the confrontation and violence it was intended to control continued to rage behind bars. Ten inmates died in the hunger strike of 1981, and two years later thirty-eight prisoners broke out in the largest ever prison escape. Yet against all odds, and despite the continual terrorist threat, the prison that was one of the most notorious symbols of the Troubles at last became a powerhouse for peace, with former and present terrorist inmates playing leading roles in the search for a lasting political settlement. The book is the definitive history on this controversial subject, casting new light on the sources of conflict and the origins of the peace process in Northern Ireland which culminated in the Belfast Agreement on 1998.

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Eclipse by John Banville
Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in ‘a perpetual state of being watched’ - even when alone. So he become an actor, and successfully performed his way through life until suddenly, at the peak of his career, he corpsed in the middle of the last act and staggered off stage, never to return. Self-banished to his childhood home and cut off from his wife, Cleave begins to unravel the past and disinter his own identity. But his attempt to retire, to sift and discard the accumulated clutter of half a century of existence, is undermined by the house itself, brimming with lives, both ghostly and undeniably, robustly human. Memory constantly displaces Cleave’s attention to the small, delicate details of the present. So too does his anxiety about the future, and the thought of his beloved but troubled daughter, Cass, tugging away at him like an undertow. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably towards a devastating denouement.

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The Gingerbread Woman by Jennifer Johnston
On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill, a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, humming Shubert, standing perilously close to the edge. From their rather testy encounter develops a remarkable friendship which will enable each to face afresh their very different damaged pasts, and to look, however tentatively, towards the future. Clara speaks often to, and worries about, her mother, the jam maker, who irritates, yet also deeply affects her. Equally preoccupying are her emotional entanglements - perhaps rather foolish at her age. Lar, who has left the North, but cannot put his huge grief behind him, speaks only reluctantly to his parents: his pain is too great for words, for family. Jennifer Johnston, one of Ireland’s finest and most distinguished novelists, has written a wonderful portrait of two uncompromising individuals, of the loves they have lost, and of the troubled bond between parents and children.

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The Photograph by Eamonn Sweeney
From a moment frozen in time, this novel sets out to retrace the stories of four men: Henry Caslin, former dancehall owner and later Taoiseach of the Irish Republic; Jimmy Mimnagh, ruthless businessman, failed politician, hopeless drunkard; Seamus McKeon, a successful journalist and TV personality; and finally Father Gerry Lee, a priest with a predilection for very young children and strong links to the IRA. The author draws his masterful portraits convincingly and with great poignancy, tracing the four men from their humble beginnings through four decades of public and private life. An extraordinarily rich narrative emerges, in which the personal stories of the central characters and the larger issues of Irish National politics and identity are woven together to show the brutality and the tenderness, the ambiguities and the certainties, the comedy and the tragedy of half a century of Irish life.

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The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
This collection contains twelve new stories from one of Ireland’s master storytellers. Set mostly in Ireland, they show the author to be writing at the height of his powers. In ‘Three People’, an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never some from the man who once told a lie to save her; in ‘Against the Odds’, a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father’s funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance. Trevor writes with understatement and precision about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives.

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The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine by Anne Barnett
This novel is set in mid-Ulster, during World War I. Every Sunday the men meet at the bridge. Felix Campbell was there with a couple dozen others. Farmers all, some creating the impression that they lived a more urgent and passionate existence in the fighting fields of France than in the potato fields of reality. Felix was smoking and talking when the bridge-gatherers spotted a figure moving over the brae. The walker was a woman, most certainly, but who? And where could a stranger be heading when there was nowhere she could go that the men wouldn’t have known about? Then she appeared. She was all colour and sway, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Pale, pale skin and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hips. She wore a purple shawl. That night, Felix, a bachelor, aged 43, living in the house he was born in, dreamt of purple.

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