![]() ![]() (And through 2022 once Emma Donoghue’s latest comes out soon.)Īnyway, the latest was John McGahern’s Amongst Women, which focuses on the rural household of Moran, a former Irish guerrilla fighter in the Irish War of Independence, who laments the way the social forces who now control the country he fought to free, and who takes out his disappointments on his five children, alternating between beloved and loving patriarch to merciless, forever angry abuser. And while I’ve been bad about writing reviews, I’ve been tearing through Irish novels from 1929-2019. Behold! My summer of Irish fiction commenced. So I decided that this summer, once I was done teaching, I’d work on fixing that. I’ve studied (and taught) a good bit of Irish poetry and drama, but I’ve come to feel that Irish fiction represented a nagging gap in my knowledge. What was it all for? The whole thing was a cod.” More than half of my own family working in England. Some of our johnnies in the top jobs instead of a few Englishmen. “What did we get for it? A country, if you’d believe them. (Novel reviewed for the “Shadow” square of CBR Bingo.) ![]()
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