“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.”
Author Archives: Amy Bond
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.
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Lucifer and the Child, Reviewed
Dublin-based publishers Swan River Press are bringing the novel, which was banned in 1940s Ireland, back into print for the first time in decades.
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The Last Footman, Reviewed
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.