| Ciarrai, 1923. I laethanta deireanacha an chogaidh chathartha tugtar ordu don chaptaen Mait Dalaigh:",An dispatch-box san, caithfidh se a bheith sa Seanabhaile roimh an gcuigiu la, sin cuig la. Agus e seo a thabhairt leat in eineacht - mar phriosunach.",I dtraidisin Dr Zhivago, Gone with the Wind agus For Whom the Bell Tolls insonn Sen Mac Mathna scal Mhait Dlaigh, fear nach raibh riamh le bean, scal Chit Bhric, bean g a bhfuil a saol caite aici ag sclbhaocht, agus scal Bhreen, gnach slachtmhar a bhfuil a chrois fin le hiompar aig e tr shneachta shlibhte Chiarra agus ina chogadh dearg ar gach taobh de.",Leabhar aoibhinn....N leagfaidh t uait an leabhar seo. T greann, seanbhlas, traidisin, nualaocht, ndr, agus cad ceist nua sa leabhar seo. Diseoidh ainmneacha sa leabhar seo taibhs as beathisnis n trimhse sin ort ach is daonna go mr na carachtair anseo.", -Mire N Fhinneadha, Foinse",Tuigeann Mac Mathna sceolaocht, tuigeann s ad, saint, sotal, urraim agus gr, agus bonn iomln lir na nithe sin ag iomarscil lena chile sna carachtair a chruthaonn s.", -Pl Muir, Beo",Mistir i mbun pinn.", -ils N Anluain, The Irish TimesKerry, 1923, as civil war rages all around them captain Mat Daly is ordered to present himself in Seanabhaile within five days with a despatch box... and a prisoner. In the tradition of Dr Zhivago, Gone with the Wind agus For Whom the Bell Tolls Sen Mac Mathna tells the story of Mat Daly, a man who has never been with a woman, of Cit Bric, a young woman who has spent her life in slavery, and of Breen, a handsome young man who has his own cross to carry through the snowbound mountains of Kerry, as the civil war rages all around them.",A master at work.", -Irish Times",A beautiful book. You won't put it down.", -Foinse |
