Connemara represents a vast open space found between Lough Corrib and the Atlantic Ocean. The landscape is decorated with mountain ranges, dotted with lakes, edged by an ocean with sandy shores and exists beneath a constantly changing sky. This book collects Ronan Bree's photographs of this area.
If you enjoy Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan and Lisa McInerney, you will want to read THE FRACTURED LIFE OF JIMMY DICE by Ronan Ryan. Jimmy is born a twin, and while he doesn't know it, his nearest sibling has stayed with him forever, overseeing the drama of his life played out and acting as a narrative voice. As a young boy, aged seven, Jimmy loses a lower limb to an attack dog - the first of many disasters that shape him for the future. Jimmy is a chancer who becomes a wilful man unafraid to stand up to a notorious Dublin gangster. He's also a young man with heart and belief: a loyal son, a good friend, a courageous brother and a sweet and passionate lover. Part love story, part coming of age, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice is also the story of a life in the changing streets of Ireland, from the days of the Troubles to the boom and bust years and Dublin today.
Michael Hendrick is a proud and intemperate man. In a wild drunken stupor, he sells his wife (Susanna) and infant daughter (Megan-Leanne) to a sailor named Redmond at a county fair in South Wexford. Sober and filled with remorse, Hendrick searches in vain for his wife and child. Years later, Redmond is reported as lost at sea. Susanna and her daughter finally return to County Wexford. They discover that Hendrick has for some time lived in the prosperous neighbourhood of Castlebridge. Susanna, wishing to effect a reconciliation with her estranged husband, enjoins Megan-Leanne to make enquiries around the town. They soon learn how Hendrick has long since vowed to abstain from alcohol and is now directing a hugely successful barley business. To his wife's astonishment, he is highly respected in the community and has even been elected to the prestigious office of Town Mayor! But Hendrick's earlier sweetheart, with whom he had been intimate in their teens, believes the Mayor to be long widowed. She resolves to settle in Castlebridge and marry her former lover. Yet it's only when Megan-Leanne falls in love with Hendrick's foreman (Dubliner Robert Ferguson) that events take a nasty turn few could have predicted!
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