05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Ithell Colquhoun's The Crying of the Wind from 1950s Ireland still chimes with modern matters
Non-fiction
The Crying of the Wind is an unfortunate title for what turns out to be a marvellous book.
I approached it with wincing trepidation: that title made me think of overwrought poetry, mawkish autobiography – the sort of thing you'd imagine being recited by some bloviating Aosdána grandee at a dreary literary festival.I was delighted to be proved wrong.
