Her mother and grandmother, after years of strife have come to an uneasy peace. The six of them, from different generations and beliefs, are forced to come to terms with each other. Edited by Dermot Bolger Over the past 20 years, an explosion of contemporary Irish writing has forced its way onto the literary scene. This book contains Irish fiction published since 1968, arranged in the chronological order of the period in which the work is set. It includes sections from novels, with an introduction explaining the context, as well as short stories.
Work is chosen on literary merit.
A historical novel marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.