Flamingo S.

6 total works

The Devil's Diary

by Patrick McGinley

Published 1 January 1988

Idealistic love and death, sibling rivalry and obsessive lust are themes familiar to McGinley's work, focusing here on Arty Brennan, who built factories, a supermarket and a noisy motel, trading a spiritually enriching culture for a "hippiedrome" of second-rate 20th century glitter. Patrick McGinley has also written "Bogmail", "Goosefoot", "Fox Prints", "Foggage", "The Trick of the Ga Bolga" and "The Red Men".

Bogmail

by Patrick McGinley

Published 22 February 1980

A rediscovered classic of Irish literature, this darkly comic tale tells of murder and its consequences.

Set in a remote village in the northwest of Ireland, Roarty, a publican and former priest, kills his lecherous bartender and buries him in a bog. When Roarty begins to receive blackmail letters, matters quickly spiral out of his control.

Alive with the loquacious brio of his pub's eccentric regulars, and full of the bleak beauty of the Donegal landscape, Patrick McGinley's rural gothic novel is a modern masterpiece.

Foggage

by Patrick McGinley

Published 1 January 1983

Kevin Hurley and his earthy twin sister Maureen - who share a remote Irish farmhouse with their bedridden, aged father -have been secret but unashamed lovers for thirty years, ever since their mother's agonizing death from cancer. But now, at 40, Maureen is pregnant, refusing either to go away or to have an abortion. So, to prevent the neighbors from drawing scandalous conclusions, Kevin must find Maureen a partner.

Goosefoot

by Patrick McGinley

Published 26 October 1982

Patrick McGinley is able to do what few novelists can: write stories and characters that are drenched in place (specifically, rural Ireland), and yet totally devoid of cheap sentimentality. His landscapes have the edgy, ludicrous beauty of a dream - unstable and prone to capsize into nightmare.

The Trick of the Ga Bolga

by Patrick McGinley

Published 1 January 1900

Set against World War II, this is a tragi-comic tale of an Englishman who tries to start a potato farm in rural Ireland, and is mistaken for a hero by the locals - with bizarre consequences, escalating to accidental death, suicide, and murder.

The Fantasist

by Patrick McGinley

Published 14 May 1987