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2000s: Waterford and Newfoundland have very strong Irish links. Add an American cop..and a crime…
Broken Falls
What you need to know before your trail
“Broken Falls” follows Wyoming cop, John Ryan, who receives a package of letters from a recently deceased priest addressed to John’s late father. Unravelling the story behind the letters leads John to the remote fishing village of Broken Falls, Newfoundland, a place filled with strange and colourful characters, whose secrets are as old as the village itself. As he attempts to find out what it was the dead priest did – and how he died – John must confront his own past and the secrets that his father tried so hard to hide.
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Newfoundland
The area/coastline between Renews and Carbonear is still known as the Irish Shore. There were more Catholic Irish who settled here in this relatively short stretch of shore than in any comparable location in Canada!
The author was inspired by an article he spotted in a magazine about a town in Nova Scotia – the very town in Newfoundland which has a high percentage of Irish speakers living there. It’s apparently the largest number of Irish Speakers outside the Gaeltacht in Ireland. Like any good writer should, he snipped the article from the magazine as it has stirred something in his imagination
He then wondered what it would be like for an American police officer to come and solve a crime here – a stranger in a strange land investigating a unique community and their linguistic differences
He decided on inventing his town and creating it from an amalgamation of real villages. There are lots of Irish communities dotted all over East Newfoundland – communities now, where many people are descendants of Irish fisherman. The waters around these parts were known to be cod-rich and so Irish fisherman simply moved to new waters.
Broken Falls is based on these small fishing villages with Irish heritage
Newfoundland is one of the few places outside Ireland in which the Irish Rebellion of 1798 had political effects.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Broken Falls
Destination: “Broken Falls” Newfoundland Author/Guide: Derek Flynn Departure Time: 2000s
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