Series:

Modern Irish Classics

2 total works

Cover of City of the Tribes

City of the Tribes

by Walter Macken

Published 22 April 1997
These stories, rich with passion and drama which characterise all of Macken's writing, were conceived by the author as a thematic collection, providing a unique evocation of the life and people of Galway in the 1940s. They document a time and place, yet they also have a timeless appeal in their portrayal of the people of the city whom Macken knew and loved so well.

Cover of The Bogman

The Bogman

by Walter Macken

Published 10 March 1972

Orphaned as a child, Cahal Kinsella returns from an industrial school in Letterfrack to the small farming village of Caherlo in West Galway, to live under the rule of his tyrannical grandfather. Cahal must learn to assert his individuality if he is to have any hope of freedom from his misery.
With humour and humanity, Walter Macken paints a haunting, memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and rebellion against suffocating social mores.
Written in 1952, this masterpiece is brought back to life in New Island’s Modern Irish Classics series.