“These motocross bikes are going up and down the streets outside their houses because normally they'd have somewhere to go, now they've nowhere to go.”
For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what their grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past.
Amy Bond is a librarian and writer from Co. Kildare, now based in Dublin. Her children’s novel _Morgana Mage in the Robotic Age_ is due to be published in January 2021.
“The Ireland that was promised to these young men is not the one that they have found themselves in. This book tells the tale of aging men in a youthful nation state.”
In this memoir, Gillies Macbain tells of arriving in Ireland in the 1960s and embarking on a life of domestic service among the declining Anglo-Irish ascendancy.
