Walk the Blue Fields

from MichelleRose

I found this book by wandering around the library picking up thing that looked interesting. I used to do that when I was a kid and it is still the most rewarding way I find good things to read. I am off of work this week and with the kids at school and spouse at work, I can enjoying reading all d...

from patronus11

What is it with the Irish and writing? Keegan is yet another excellent Irish storyteller, and I think she's a major talent in the making. Concerned with ordinary family life, these stories tend to be set in rural Ireland on farms, and Keegan's voice is distinctive, even timeless. The last story i...

from Othemts

This is a collection of stories set in Ireland. They are contemporary tales but set in rural settings so there's lots of traditional gender roles, repressed emotions, and outcomes that are rather depressing. Fortunately, there is some humor in this stories that otherwise can be dour. These storie...

from mackthefinger

Beautifully crafted collection of short stories, mostly set in rural Ireland. Some of them have a gothic strangeness about them (the forresters daughter) whilst others (the surrender) are more in the style of masters of the form such as McGahern and Trevor. Themes are universal ones, such as esca...

from Cariola

I've found a new Irish writer to follow in Claire Keegan. This is a lovely collection of seven melancholy stories, most of them set in rural Ireland. The main character in each story is haunted by tragedy--a lost love, a missed opportunity, a broken family, a dead child, a loveless marriage--and ...