Walter Macken Bücher

Spannende Geschichte der abenteuerlichen Flucht zweier Kinder quer durch Irland.

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Irland Ende der 20er Jahre: Der junge fröhliche Cahal wird durch Unwissenheit, Nachgiebigkeit und fremde Schuld und - als ihm de Augen aufgehen und er gegen Unterdrückung und moralische heuchelei aufbegehrt - durch den in Gewalt umschlagenden Boykott der Nachbarn und Dorfbewohner fast, aber nur fast, zugrundegerichtet.

Originally written in 1952, and soon banned in Ireland, New Island’s Modern Irish Classics series brings this masterwork back to life. Orphaned at a young age, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo, Co. Galway to his tyrannical grandfather, and must assert his individuality if he is to have any hope of freedom from his misery. Walter Macken paints a haunting and memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and of rebellion against suffocating social mores

The third book in the acclaimed Irish trilogy

In the first half of the nineteenth century - Ireland's most desolate period - the landlords ground down the tenant farmers, injustice, was rife and starvation stalked through the land. An age of oppression, monster meetings, tithe wars, and degradation. Dualta Duane battles against tyranny and struggles to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and disease. Courageous, and fortified by an enduring love, Duane's unconquerable spirit personifies the love of freedom that raged in the soul of Ireland.

These Stories, rich with the passion and drama which characterise all of Walter Macken's writing, were conceived by the author as a thematic collection, providing a stunning evocation of the life and people of Galway in the 1940s. They document a time and a place, yet they also have a timeless appeal in their portrayal of the people of the city whom Macken knew and loved so well. Full of insight and humour, they do not romanticise the past; rather they celebrate the qualities or ordinary people in their struggles with poverty, with political conservatism and with the sea, ever-present elements in the life of the city of the tribes.