The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black (2021)The young girl stood in the darkness before the tall window and watched with excitement and fascination the bombs falling on the city. Snow by John Banville (2020) – A Strafford and Quirke MysteryI’m a priest, for Christ’s sake – how can this be happening to me? April in … Continue reading My Reading – August 2023
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My Reading – January 2023
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris If you had set out in the summer of 1660 to travel the four miles from Boston to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first house you would have come to after crossing the Charles River would have been the Goodkins’. Foster by Claire Keegan Early on Sunday, after first Mass at … Continue reading My Reading – January 2023
My Reading – November 2022
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John BoyneLong ago before we had discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced … Continue reading My Reading – November 2022
My Reading – October 2022
The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan (More detail on this play below)A prisoner sings: he is in one of the punishment cells. A hungry feeling came o’er me stealing, And the mice were squealing in my prison cell, And that old triangle, Went jingle jangle, All along the banks of the Royal Canal. A Shape … Continue reading My Reading – October 2022
My Reading – May 2022
The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland There was a man who had a cross and his name was Macauley. Angel of Goliad by Jean M Roberts The sun was high in the brilliant summer sky. It was a rare day of sunshine during the rainy season. Holding by Graham Norton It was widely accepted by the … Continue reading My Reading – May 2022
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