Why a Booktrail?
Destination:County Kerry Departure Time: 1950s
This book transports its reader into a world and culture that although Ireland appears as quite an alien and strange landscape. A poem in the form of a books.
The Deposition of Father McGreevy
What you need to know before your trail
In a London pub in the 1950s, a journalist sits and considers returning to Kerry in order to find out the truth about the demise of the place he knows well. This remote mountain village retained an old and historical way of life and traditions. but the women were dying and the men were isolated and the drink took over many. World War 2 was going on at the time and the local priest had a terrible job upon his hands not to mention the pain of not being able to bury bodies due to the frozen ground in winter,
Then there was the mistrust of the town below.. When the priests are found, will the truth come out?
Travel Guide
Set in County Kerry in the West of Ireland.
A remote community lives on the side of a mountain – remote in every sense of the word and even more so as the bleakest and harshest of winters. The winter brings sickness and death and even more grief when the winter freeze has made the ground too hard to allow burials. Father McGreevy is the man in charge of dealing with all of this sorrow and more.
We see Father McGreevy and his place in the world – as a member of the Catholic church for looking over his flock, but from that mountainside he sees so much more – he has a unique view of the world in all senses of the word. The pain of his parishioners, the way demon drink destroys people and the way that communities survive and get through.
When journalist Willian McGinn comes along in 1950 and discovers the priests journey in diary form, the landscape comes alive once again yet takes on a more eerie and ghostly appearance and its true character comes to the fore
Rural Ireland during the second world war is a solitary place to be.
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