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Nora

Darina Molloy’s Irish Book Reviews

By Darina Molloy

Summer 2021

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A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen  Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor series – set in Galway – are very much books of their place and time. Bruen evokes Galway so realistically that the reader is there with Jack as he meanders down Shop Street or heads for a pint in Garavan’s or encounters trouble down by the Corrib. And because Jack listens to the same news, we watch through his eyes … [Read more...] about Darina Molloy’s Irish Book Reviews

Nora, an Excerpt

By Thomas Lynch
October / November 2000

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Even now, here 30 years since, when I turn to the southwest in Ennis from Shannon, and head out on the peninsula that ends at Loop Head, and somewhere on that road get my first wind of turfsmoke, I remember the first time and the sense that I had then of coming home. "The name's good," the man in the customs hall had said, letting my bags pass without a look. I had a hundred … [Read more...] about Nora, an Excerpt