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The year is 1968. Jeremiah Coffey is a twenty-seven-year-old teacher -- Catholic, conservative and plagued by guilt on account of his relationship with a beautiful bisexual called Aisling O'Connor.
Aisling is everything that Jeremiah is not -- feisty and radical, angry and committed. She is a leading figure in the Irish civil rights movement and is planning to help organize a potentially explosive protest march inspired by the US black civil rights activists' Selma to Montgomery marches of three years before. The scene is set for a brutal confrontation to match the 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma.
categories: Romance, Literary, Civil Rights, LGBT, Irish Troubles, Religion, Humor
- Sales Rank: #537462 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Colm Herron’s first writing career began at the age of seven when he sold his vampire stories to classmates. Two years later he was telling cliffhangers to the wasters in the local gambling hall. Colm’s abiding memory is that these guys seemed to enjoy this weekly break from misspending their lives. When he was fifteen he had a play on BBC and later brought his short stories to Brian Friel, an emerging playwright. Friel said “Great. This stuff’s better than what I wrote at your age.” But Colm was unimpressed and thought “Friel’s going nowhere. I don’t know why I came to him at all.” So Colm gave up writing, deciding to live instead. Meanwhile Friel took off and, while his plays were showing worldwide for the next thirty years, stories were kicking and turning in Colm’s head. But they still weren’t ready to come out. Till twelve years ago, that is, when he said to himself “OK, I’ve lived. Maybe it’s time to do the other thing.” And so began his second writing career...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
'The Wake' (a nod to the nickname for Joyce's final ...
By Jonathan McCreedy
'The Wake' (a nod to the nickname for Joyce's final novel 'Finnegans Wake' - cf. Herron's own 'Further Adventures of James Joyce) is a departure from his first three novels: the autobiografiction of 'For I Have Sinned'; the metatextual and experimental 'Further Adventures'; and the Realistic historical novel 'The Fabricator'. 'The Wake' is by far his most accessible and light read: the title stating tersely its two part structure. Part 1: 'The Wake' (the hero attends, and organises a Wake) and 'What Jeremiah Did Next' (which is, precisely that. What he did after the 'Wake'). Within the first section, Herron contributes to the Irish literary tradition of 'Wake' writing (cf. Anne Enright's 'The Gathering' - although Herron's work is far superior) but his work is unique, and defines and details the unique 'Derry' Wake. The dialect is heavy, (mind you, the 'Wile Big Derry Phrase Book' can be an effective translator) but Herron writes in a style not intended to confuse but to make his text as authentic and realistic as possible (with its aesthetic of making Irish speech poetic, the Hiberno-English in Synge's work is identical in style). The second section (in a brave authorial step by Herron) is a complete retelling of the 'Long March' section of 'The Fabricator'; a plotline that reveals itself to us slowly, and its experimental stylistic concept (basically , that it is a 'retread', albeit the famous historical event is now told from Jeremiah's perspective), lends itself well to Herron's highly amusing dialogue and dark "Troubles Literature" subject matter. Overall, it's highly commendable (like all of his novels) on both of its reading levels: swift accessible pure comic fiction and academic literature that deserves inclusion into the Irish contemporary 'canon'.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
This is a story to get lost in!
By Hobnails
Is it Derry or LondonDerry where this story is told?
Asking that very question during the dark days of the troubles in a divided Northern Ireland in the 1970’s could be enough in itself to bring on violent, bloody turmoil.
I read this story in an earlier, unrevised from when it appeared on an internet site and bought the rewritten version the day it was published. It is that kind of a book.
This is a story of Maud’s wake as told by Jeremiah, a youth with a dry and engaging sense of humour and a fierce passion for Aisling; the love of his maturing young life. But the path of his true love does not run straight and fair, it is complicated, because the good lady who lights his fuse occasionally likes to have hers lighted by sharing her bed with others that she has more in common with – like her gender. Oh dear me Jeremiah, you really must learn to talk knitting or cooking or whatever it is that’s lacking in your bed time conversation with your darling Aisling to keep her to yourself. Or something!
Through the wake of Maud - the dear, dead departed – whom nobody liked or misses - Colm Herron transports us back to those volcanic times in the history of the Province. With the skill of a master craftsman coupled with more than a touch of his own wit and humour he exposes and satirizes the bigotry of the times from all sides of the prevalent arguments centred around the Church and Irish Politics to deliver what is, in essence, a love story.
Brilliantly written in the author’s own inimitable style to gives us insight into those dark times and yet, with a lightness to make this is a delightfully amusing and entertaining read.
It is a book to keep by for those precious hours when one can be alone to immerse oneself entirely in the story. To put another cushion on the armchair and draw it closer to the fire so you can get your feet into the cinders, settle down with a glass and bottle of Irish whiskey by your side and allow yourself to be transported back to Maud’s wake in 1970’s Derry – or should that be LondonDerry?
Now the answer to that question depends on whether the bottle of whiskey by your side is Jameson’s or Bushmills!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
By Alicia Britton
Maud’s dead and the mixed bag of characters at her wake aren’t likely to miss her. They have their own “troubles.” In a world that’s modernizing and leaving God behind, Northern Ireland remains in a state of controversy and confusion. Premarital sex is bad, Catholic priests deserve reverence under any circumstances, drinking to excess is acceptable–sometimes, depending on who you ask–and bloodshed is welcome as long as God is the reason. Oh, and let’s not forget that homosexuality is for heathens. So what is Jeremiah to do? He may be outwardly polite and slow to anger, but his debilitating obsession is Aisling, his bisexual on-again, off-again girlfriend. He’d follow her to hell if he has to (and he almost does), and along the way he pours a wee bit of whiskey, has a few laughs, begrudgingly tolerates Audrey, Aisling’s lesbian lover, and then Frances’s know-it-all ways and massive derriere, all for pleasure he considers the closest thing to heaven.
Colm Herron’s “The Wake” is a hilarious reminder that even a devotion to God can’t negate the fact that we’re all human. And when our habits are scrutinized and discussed in detail by our bored friends, relatives, and neighbors, no one, not even the Father Swindells of the world will come out wearing a halo.
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