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Other Voices contributor has novel published!
Other Voices contributor Marina J. Neary recently published her latest novel, Brendan Malone: the Last Fenian.
Roscommon, Ireland – 1910. A string of crop failures and botched rebellions had left the country a pitiful wasteland. Brendan Malone is a struggling Gaelic landlord and member of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood. Malone succumbs to a midlife flare-up of nationalism while his two sons climb the academic Olympus at University College Dublin. Dylan, primitive and compliant, clings to his overbearing father, while Hugh, anglicized beyond recognition, harbours his own ambitions that do not include liberating his native land.
Enjoy this blood-chilling folkloric satire about the dark, destructive side of paternal love and the distorted concepts of patriotism and camaraderie.
Neary on Malone: “One of the reviewers compares the family dynamics to those in a Jane Austen novel. In a sense, Malone is like a Jane Austen novel—for men. Instead of a busybody mother trying to marry off her daughters to rich men, there is an overbearing, fanatical father eager to sacrifice his two sons for ‘the Cause’ in a sufficiently spectacular fashion.
The story was inspired by an obscure Irish myth about Cuchulainn. As most Celtophiles know, Cuchulainn is a hero in Irish mythology. He symbolizes patriotism and romantic self-sacrifice.”
Ms. Neary’s novel can be purchased through Amazon in paperback and Kindle format.
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