© Editions Balland
The story of Seanie Doolin, surviving twin of a brutal civil-war murder in the Irish midlands, forms the core of this extraordinary début novel. In 1948 his hometown, shadowed by its buried past, prepares for a visit from de Valera and President O'Kelly. Over twenty-four hours events and individuals converge as, one by one, the men who were there that dreadful night in 1921 speak out - schoolteacher, doctor, butcher, priest, victim. Seanie Doolin's pain and loss, the presence and purging of evil, love's redemption, and the pathology of ancient animosities within ordinary lives, is conveyed in language that is simple, direct and emotionally devastating.
Lilliput Press 1993
Translated into: French
Antony Farrell
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