Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It is not news that the Irish have taken just one thing from the hated English, their language, and have shaped and molded it in new and exciting ways. One of the best of the modern Irish writers is Mr. Kiely, who gives us here 17 stories and a novella called Proxopera. The themes are eternal: the land, the church, the violence, and the agony. What is different is Mr. Kiely's extraordinary sense of place and time—the town of Omagh and the middle third of this century. Now using broad strokes, now incisive detail, Mr. Kiely brings us the reality that is Ireland with a compelling vitality." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)