| Ingne Dearga Dheaideo has the variety that readers have come to expect of a Padraic Breathnach collection of short stories. The opening story, Anam Mna, explores the plight of a mother mourning the loss of her first-born child, and brilliantly captures her devastation and disbelief at what has happened. Inion describes a father's anxious wait for the return of his wayward teenage daughter from a night out. M'Uncail Mairtin agus Cailleacha Mheiricea is a wonderful, parable-like tale of two witches in Manhattan who engage in a fierce stone-throwing battle. The author explores a wide range of themes in this collection, including grief, old age, the eternal struggle between tradition and modernity and life through the eyes of a child. |
