Death and Nightingales
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Soon to be a major television event starring Matthew Rhys and Jamie Dornan.
It is 1883 and the farms of County Fermanagh, on the border of Ulster and what we now know as the Republic of Ireland, are crisscrossed with religious, political, and generational tensions. Through the events of a single day in the life of Elizabeth Winters, we see decades of pain, betrayal, and resentment build to a devastating climax.
Against the fearsome beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of McCabe's heroine, Beth, slowly and suspensefully unfolds. Born to a Catholic mother and an unknown Catholic father, conceived shortly before her mother's marriage to Protestant Billy Winters, Beth has lived a life of silent suffering since her mother's death. Determined to decide her own fate but doomed to repeat the tragic circumstances of her birth, McCabe illuminates her quiet, searing power with the tenderness of a poet, offering up a powerful, lyrical indictment of the tensions that tear families and nations apart.
'A masterpiece. Death and Nightingales is a miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot which keeps you up all night.'-Colm Toibin
'A deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book' - Michael Ondaatje
'Brilliant, richly conceived, and perfectly narrated with the suspense of a good thriller.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Eugene McCabe
Rugadh Eugene McCabe i nGlaschú, Albain do thuismitheoirí a bhí ar imirce as Éirinn. Bhog an chlann ar ais go hÉirinn sna luath 1940í. Bhí cónaí air ar fheirm in aice le Cluain Eois i gCo. Mhuineacháin gar don teorainn idir Phoblacht na hÉireann agus Tuaisceart Éireann. Cailleadh é sa mbliain 2020 agus é 91 bliain d'aois. Tharraing a dhráma 'King of the Castle' raic nuair a léiríodh é den chéad uair i 1964 agus chuir The League of Decency ina choinne. Scríobh McCabe a thríológ drámaí teilifíse 'Cancer, Heritage, agus Siege' mar go raibh sé ag iarraidh ráiteas a dhéanamh faoi na Trioblóidí. Bhuaigh na drámaí sin ar fad duaiseanna. 'Ceann de mhórshaothair Éireannacha an chéid seo' a thug Colm Tóibín ar úrscéal McCabe 'Death and Nightingales' agus 'saothar clasaiceach d'ár linnse' a thug Kirkus Reviews ar an leabhar céanna.
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Reviews for Death and Nightingales
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5On her birthday, Beth Winters has promised to give herself an unusual present. She is going to leave the home of her abusive father and start a new life with Liam Ward, her lover and the father of her unborn child. As the day progresses, and Beth's history is unfolded, it becomes clear that she does not know this Liam Ward as well as she thought. And when she is told a horrifying truth, she must discard all her plans for her last grim recourse. A dark tale set in the grim Irish countryside in 1883, this novel examines the effect bitterness and a bleak history can have upon human affection.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5a quietly brilliant very Irish story, famine, troubles, beautiful descriptions of county FermanaghThe BBC made a series based on the book in 2018, not sure if it is available here yet