Once Upon A Time In The Emerald Isle

by Denis Byrne

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Pub Date Jul 16 2018 | Archive Date Aug 23 2018

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Description

A collection of short stories, all set in an Ireland of the past.

One of them concerns the shameful way we treated our unmarried mothers, and the children who were ferried off to the infamous institutions run by the Christian Brothers.

Another is about a mother’s unique way of dealing with an all powerful parish priest who is taking advantage of her daughter’s lapse into impurity.

There is a love story involving a domestic servant and a labourer, and another about a Jewish moneylender who discovers in rather unusual circumstances that his forced exile from his beloved Germany to Ireland has brought him to the true land of condensed milk and honey.

A collection of short stories, all set in an Ireland of the past.

One of them concerns the shameful way we treated our unmarried mothers, and the children who were ferried off to the infamous...