For me, painting and music are both a way of describing this otherworld that lies outside the boundaries of my conscious thought and the limits of my own personal experience of the world. And to this day I still have dreams in which I walk past those edges of my little childhood world, and find myself in a strange kind of otherworld, which is impossible to describe with my waking mind. We didn’t visit our neighbors much on either side, and I only ever had a vague idea of what was behind those lines of trees. On the western side was a line of tall, graceful poplar trees that made a whooshing sound like a rainstick in the evening when there was a breeze and lit up with the sun falling behind them. On the eastern edge were towering pines, which seemed huge and foreboding to me when I was very small, and at their feet, a tumbling rock wall marking the edge of our property. I used to sit on a rock in the field behind my parents’ house when I was growing up, and look around at the margins of our property. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy $24.99.Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan $20.00.The Irish of Portland, Maine by Matthew Jude Barker $19.99.In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go.Īs urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Among them is a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. Award-winning author Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea is a New York Times Notable Book and “thoroughly gripping” (People) historical mystery.
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