The Waking of Willie RyanIntroduction by Sen Hewitt Long overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece, The Waking of Willie Ryan reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of midcentury Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory who comes home to die and, in doing

Glynn Jones (author of The Millers)

North American customer should order from Cornell University Press

‘How many

related with the poised eye of a young Elizabeth Bowen

Ireland and the First World War

sister canals

compassion

daughter of the Commandant of the Swiss Guard

as well as some ten collections of poetry

the author invokes alternative tongues

almost cinematically

with her vivid experiences of the Great War