Banner Books Ltd - The Darkness Echoing By Gillian O'brien

Energetic, illuminating and surprisingly funny. From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to life Ireland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange enchantment in the drama of our dark past. It's everywhere we look and in all of our beloved myths, songs and stories that have helped to form our cultural identity. Paperback, 373 pages.