Setting Archive : Ireland
(I try to break stuff down by place and time. Doesnt always work but there you go)
The Unfortunate Fursey
Fursey is a lay brother in Clonmacnoise. The only monastery in Ireland to be unafflicted by demons and other such […]
Posted on 2 June 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
The Ransom of Dond
Illustrated by Pam Smy Darra lives on the island of Inniscaul is a small island off the coast of Eriu, […]
Posted on 10 February 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
Downturn Abbey
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly started life in The Sunday Times and currently stars in The Irish Times, he is a fictional wealthy […]
Posted on 23 January 2014 | By Fence
A week in winter
Chicky left her home on the west coast of Ireland and headed off to America after a whirl-wind romance. Full […]
Posted on 21 April 2013 | By Fence | 4 responses
Donegal fairy stories
I do enjoy fairy stories, of all shapes and sorts. When I was younger I read plenty of the children’s […]
Posted on 19 February 2012 | By Fence | 2 responses
Gabriel’s gate
With the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the onset of the “economic doom and gloom” so popular in the […]
Posted on 5 January 2012 | By Fence | 3 responses
The Islandman
Translated from the Irish (An tOileánach) by Robin Flower Tomás Ó Criomhthain, or, if you’d prefer an anglicised version, Thomas […]
Posted on 1 December 2011 | By Fence
The pink cage
Astrid is a bitch. She doesn’t see herself that way, but as I started this novel I really didn’t like […]
Posted on 9 September 2011 | By Fence | 12 responses
Blood
The unnamed central character of this short story finds himself suddenly craving blood. He can’t understand it, he is a normal person, a normal man, why on earth is this happening to him. He tries to rationalise it, maybe he has an iron deficiency? Or maybe it is a totally misdirected sex-drive? And yet, he continues to find himself being drawn towards blood. Bloody raw steaks, the next-door neighbour’s chickens…
Posted on 22 May 2011 | By Fence | 4 responses
How many miles to Babylon?
ISBN: 9780141046969 ; Quotes Because I am an officer and a gentleman they have given me my notebooks, pen, ink […]
Posted on 19 January 2011 | By Fence | 8 responses
A swift, pure cry
Author: Siobhan Down ISBN: 9780099488163 DDC: 823.92 LibraryThing | Wikipedia | Siobhan Dowd Trust The place brought to mind a […]
Posted on 14 January 2010 | By Fence
Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow
From the new glass bridge which spanned the inscrutable waters of the Grand Canal, the tram purred downhill and glided gently into the heart of the city.
It was the opening of this book that persuaded me to buy it. The way Ní Duibhne pokes fun at that certain class of Dublin people. It made me smile, but because I knew that there really are people who think that way. Or at least there used to be, now with the demise of the Celtic Tiger maybe there are less of them than there once were.
