The author, Simon Smith, is a filmmaker who has recorded stories from around the world, and that background is seen in the writing as he fills in little details and concentrates on the lives, likes and troubles of the main characters. Continue reading
Sine fadas all over the place. Continue reading
Everywhere Delia Murphy went she collected – from the servants at home, from the travellers in the lane, from fishermen, from the blacksmith. Continue reading
A miscellany of Irish books…. Continue reading
Ireland is set to recognize the extraordinary charity shown to its people by a Native American tribe during the country’s 19th-century famine. Continue reading
The Doris Brothers Bridge Continue reading
Even if I can’t read or write
I can imagine sun flooding a page. Continue reading
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