Long Island: Colm TĂłibĂn’s Compelling Sequel to Brooklyn Explores Love, Loyalty, and Identity
Long Island
By Colm ToibinSimon & Schuster (Scribner)ISBN 978-1-4767-8513-0 2024 295 pp.
Long Island, Toibin’s sequel to the highly acclaimed Brooklyn, which was made into a...
Blowin’ In: The Bullfrog
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 Alternatives: A Family’s Journey Through Loss and Reunion
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 Barrett: A Review
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...
Irish Lit: The English Jesuit in Dublin
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