MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Exiles by Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Poignant narrative of Irish migrants in Britain in the 1950s
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
GIVEN the extent of Irish migration to Britain, the length of its history and the volume of workers crossing the Irish Sea, surprisingly little has been written about the phenomenon.
Few Irish novels chronicle the displacements to the great metropolises of Britain and this is the more
striking an omission from a small nation teeming with world-class writers.
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