© OZ Slniečkovo, 2009
In this novel Robert Welch calls up voices bearing witness to some of the seismic historical events of four centuries that continue to disturb the Irish psyche. Focusing on the province of Munster, and panning back and forth in time, Welch sets two families, the Condons and O'Dwyers, in periods of great national convulsions: the Elizabethan conquest, the Famine, emigration, the struggle for Irish independence. It is their voices – individual, intimate, shockingly immediate – and the voices of their English masters that let us hear and understand the human experience that lies below and between the lines of written history.
Blackstaff Press 1997
Translated into: Slovak
Robert Welch