ClubLeabhar.com - Book of the Month, January/February 2010

Mártan Mac Cormaic’s marriage is in ruins, his job security is precarious and his fathering skills leave a lot to be desired. His life is a soap opera...

I gCóngar i gCéin

A controversial novel first published in 1983, and now back in print after an absence of 15 years.

Tom Connor is the parish priest on a Gaeltacht island, where he is actively fighting to support a community devastated by emigration and poverty. His housekeeper, Marion, who lives in the parochial house with him, tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Tom must decide between his duty to his parishioners, his love for Marion, and his belief in the priesthood. The resolution of his dilemma makes for dramatic and heartbreaking reading. Bob Quinn’s award-winning film Budawanny (1987) is based on this novel.

Pádraig Standún was born in Mayo in 1946. A well-known community activist, he is serving as parish priest in Carna, Co. Galway. He has written ten novels.

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