(Novel reviewed for the “Shadow” square of CBR Bingo.) “What did we get for it? A country, if you’d believe them. Some of our johnnies in the top jobs instead of a few Englishmen. More than half of my own family working in England. What was it all for? The whole thing was a cod.” I’ve studied (and taught) a good bit of Irish poetry and drama, but I’ve come to feel that Irish fiction represented a nagging gap in my knowledge. So I decided that […]