Irish Lit

The Bullfrog Last weekend, I woke before dawn. Mothers have this uncanny ability to sleep yet remain alert for night sounds. When my children were...

The Alternative The Flattery sisters, four brilliant and very different girls, raised in a small town south of Dublin, were plunged prematurely into adulthood when...

Wild Houses By Colin BarrettGrove Press ISBN 978-0-8021-6094-2 255 pp. 2024 Long recognized as a proven short story writer (Homesickness), Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses is set...

The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is