Paula Tully

Meeting Countess Markievicz and Other Irish Short Stories Paula Tully

A young Dublin woman is on alert for a Black and Tan raid on her house following the execution of Kevin Barry during the Irish War of Independence; the aftermath of the Celtic Tiger frenzy threatens to push an Irish entrepreneur to a place of true darkness; a beautiful Australian soldier beguiles two Irish ladies on the Eurostar but a silent trauma awaits; an Irish teenager's battle with body weight reveals the truth about his mother's complex love; a vicious attack leads to a teenage pregnancy in rural Ireland which must be shamefully hidden; a young Dublin woman living in London meets an Easter Rising revolutionary who fuels her own desire for Irish liberation. These stories aim to capture pivotal or vivid moments in the lives of ordinary people as they contend with the illusive edges and crevices of the human psyche in all its subtle motivation and cruel denial.