#Latest news with #TheCryingoftheWindIrish Independent4 days agoEntertainmentIrish IndependentIthell Colquhoun's The Crying of the Wind from 1950s Ireland still chimes with modern mattersNon-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.
Irish Independent4 days agoEntertainmentIrish IndependentIthell Colquhoun's The Crying of the Wind from 1950s Ireland still chimes with modern mattersNon-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.
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