A01=Mel O'Doherty
Author_Mel O'Doherty
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Product details
- ISBN 9781910422762
- Dimensions: 135 x 205mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Bluemoose Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and talk she did. She even tried to tell the public. She wrote letters to the newspapers. She made signs and picketed Mass. The good pious parishioners silenced her. The doctors told her she was delusional. Her husband didn't post her letters. Her son didn't believe her. Three decades later, still caught in the guilt from that time, Michael sits watching the news about the mother and baby homes unfolding, and realises, with his mother long gone, that she had been telling the truth all those years ago. Fallen is a stark and beautifully written account of the impact on one family of a shameful chapter in modern Irish
Mel O'Doherty was shortlisted for the Francis MacManus award in 2019. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Seán O Faoláin international short story award and longlisted for The Sunday Times Shor Story Award. His stories have been published in Southwood Literary Journal and The Irish Times and broadcast on RTE Radio. He is an English teacher by profession. He lives in Douglas, Cork with his wife and three children.
