ALL OVER this country, in housing estates and country lanes, there are houses that are unkempt and seem—by comparison with their neighbours—anachronistic. The paintwork is peeling, the hedges ‘leggy’ and sprawling, their gardens littered with broken things. Colm Bairéad’s An Cailín Ciúin – an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s internationally critically acclaimed novella Foster – begins… Read more »
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