In the season of the daisies / Thomas Phelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelan, Tom, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Ireland--Fiction.

City and town life.

Ireland.

Violence--Ireland--Fiction.

Violence.

Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

Summary:

One night in 1921 an IRA action went wrong. A young boy, Willie Doolin, was violently murdered before his twin brother's eyes. The story of that night unfolds like a mystery, revealing the sins of the past and the legacy left for the surviving twin, Seanie Doolin - a man-child tortured and insane with grief - and the upstanding citizens involved: a butcher, a schoolteacher, a doctor, a shopkeeper, and a priest. With the passage of time, the buried past resurfaces. Seanie Doolin roams the shadowy streets serving as a constant reminder of that fateful night. Doctor McKenna slides into an alcoholic stupor; merchant Peetie Mahon, an ominous force, continues to torment the crazed Seanie. John Cashin hides his guilt behind a wall of sanctity; and Father Quinn remains oblivious to the town's unraveling and greedily hordes his parishioners' tithes to build a monument to the church and to himself.

Notes:

First published: Dublin, Ireland : Lilliput Press, 1993.

ISBN:

1568580746

OCLC:

34926849