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Country Girl: A Great Fiction Writer’s Life by Edna O’Brien

On April 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The courageous and poetic narrative of a great fiction writer’s life, seen from the vantage point of eight decades, brilliant and sensuous, Country Girl is a book we are fortunate that Edna O’Brien decided to write.

All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship by Kathryn Miles

On March 19, 2013, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greed—more than a million people attempted to flee the Irish famine.

British Captain Robert Nairac, the SAS and the Three Steps Inn

On November 30, 2012, in Alistair Kerr, Guest Writers, by Alistair Kerr

Students of the Troubles in Northern Ireland know that on 14-15 May 1977 Captain Robert Nairac GC was abducted from the Three Steps Inn in Drumintee, Co. Armagh, tortured and murdered by members of the Provisional IRA and sympathisers. His remains have never been found. It is less well-known that the SAS (the Special Air Service Regiment), with whom Nairac had been co-located, although he was not a member of that regiment, paid a return visit to the Three Steps Inn a matter of weeks after Nairac’s murder. Unlike Nairac, they took every precaution before moving in.

British Captain Robert Nairac’s Last Photograph – Part 2

On November 11, 2012, in Alistair Kerr, Guest Writers, by Alistair Kerr

The photograph stated to be of Robert Nairac under cover, with long hair and scruffy civilian clothes, taken shortly before his disappearance, is not of him. A retired army officer who knew him confirms this.

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly

On October 13, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine’s causes and consequences.

The Life of Objects, A Historical Novel by Susanna Moore

On September 18, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

In searing physical and emotional detail, The Life of Objects illuminates Beatrice’s journey from childhood to womanhood, from naïveté to wisdom, as a continent collapses into darkness around her. It is Susanna Moore’s most powerful and haunting novel yet.

Dublinesque, A Novel of a Journey Connecting the Worlds of Joyce and Beckett by Enrique Vila-Matas

On September 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey that connects the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, revealing the difficulties faced by literary authors, publishers, and good readers in a society where literature is losing influence. A robust work, Dublinesque is a masterwork of irony, humor, and erudition by one of Spain’s most celebrated living authors.

British Captain Robert Nairac’s Last Photograph, An Essay by Alistair Kerr

On August 21, 2012, in Alistair Kerr, Guest Writers, by Alistair Kerr

Two of the last photographs known to have been taken of Captain Robert Nairac GC before his abduction and murder in May 1977 may offer clues to what he was doing and how he came to meet his death. The first photo is the well-known image of Robert Nairac talking to young people in the Ardoyne district of Belfast, which appeared in the Irish and foreign Press shortly after his death.

James Joyce: A New Biography With a Massively Detailed Narrative by Gordon Bowker

On August 18, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his novels and stories foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyce’s genius was by no means immediately recognized, nor was his success easily won. At twenty-two he chose a life of exile; he battled poverty and financial dependency for much of his adult life; his out-of-wedlock relationship with Nora Barnacle was scandalous for the time; and the attitudes he held towards the Irish and Ireland, England, sexuality, politics, Catholicism, popular culture—to name a few—were complex, contradictory, and controversial.

Vengeance: A Quirke Mystery Novel by Dublin Novelist Benjamin Black

On August 3, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

A bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as one of our most brilliant crime novelists reveals a world where money and sex trump everything. Why did Victor Delahaye kill himself, and who is intent upon wreaking vengeance on so many of those who knew him?