Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
New Ways to Kill Your Father
By Colm Tóibín
Rory & Ita
by Roddy Doyle
Viking, 338 pp., $23.95
The Speckled People
by Hugo Hamilton
Fourth Estate, 298 pp., $24.95
It seemed beyond belief that our neighbor Seamus Doyle, who tended roses, and his wife, Gretta, who went to Mass every day, had once led a revolution, that he had been sentenced to death by the British, and that she had, with two other women, raised the Tricolour, the Irish flag, over one of the main buildings of the southern town of Enniscorthy in the 1916 Rebellion. It seemed even more astonishing that Marion Stokes had been one of the other flag-raisers; she came to our house every evening during Easter Week 1966 to watch a drama on television about the events of fifty years earlier.
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