| New Dubliners |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|12:44 pm] |
 Brian Cronin. “We came from nowhere and found we belonged nowhere else,” says Francis Hanrahan, the troubled young hero of Dermot Bolger’s fiercely beautiful novel “The Journey Home.” The nowhere he’s referring to is the Dublin suburb he reluctantly, often bitterly, calls home. Francis — who occasionally goes by “Francy,” more frequently by “Hano” — lives there sometimes with his parents and sometimes with his rakish pal, Shay, who likes to refer to the youth of this grim town as “the children of limbo.” Nowhere? Limbo? What ever happened to the Old Sod, the homeland cherished in the romantic imaginations of Irish emigrants to the United States, England, the Continent, wherever in the world they go? Is it nowhere John Wayne comes back to in “The Quiet Man,” for pity’s sake? (Read more)http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Rafferty-t.html?ref=books |
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