Tom Phelan in New Anthology...
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Read a chapter from Tom Phelan's novel Iscariot in Brandon
Twenty-Five, edited by Steve MacDonogh. This anthology
brings together the work of twenty-five authors in
a wide-ranging, stimulating collection of some of the
best of modern fiction. Published by Brandon
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 FROM TOM PHELAN...
The Canal Bridge
"Another First World
War masterpiece...
An ambitious, accomplished and deeply moving contribution
to Ireland's formidable corpus of fiction about the Great
War."
--Irish
Independent
"A powerful and deeply
affecting novel."
--Books Ireland
"A masterful story...Must
be ranked among the more successful of the novels dealing
with the First World War."
--Irish Emigrant
"An incredibly moving story of love and
friendship....From recounting childhood experiences in rural
Ireland to epic battle scenes, the writing is consistently stunning."
--Irish
Echo
A quarter of
a million Irish men joined the British army and fought in the
trenches
in the First World War, and nearly
fifty thousand died. Tom Phelan's gripping new novel, The
Canal Bridge, tells the story of two of these men (and the
women they leave behind) as they struggle to survive the abattoir
that was
Europe.
14.99 Euro, paperback, ISBN: 1
84351 075 8
Published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin, www.lilliputpress.ie
To order The Canal
Bridge in the U.S., contact us.
Tom Phelan is the author of the acclaimed novels
The Canal Bridge, In the Season of the Daisies, Iscariot,
and Derrycloney.
Phelan's novels have been published in four countries–the U.S.,
Ireland, France, and Germany–and in three languages. He has also
written for Newsday and for the journal of the American Irish Historical
Society. Born and raised on a farm in Strahard, Mountmellick, County
Laois, in the Irish midlands, Phelan now makes his home on New
York's Long Island.
In the Season of the Daisies
Tom Phelan's first novel, In the Season of the Daisies, tells of the
1921 IRA murder of a young boy and the effects on his surviving twin
and on the men who witnessed the killing. In the Season of the
Daisies was chosen for the "Discover Great New Writers" series sponsored
by Barnes & Noble and was a finalist for the Discover Great New
Writers Award.
Iscariot
Phelan's widely praised novel Iscariot is the story of an expatriate
ex-priest who returns to Ireland to face the past and stumbles across
the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young woman.
Derrycloney
Derrycloney tells a tale of life in the Irish
countryside in the 1940s. Phelan calls it his "fanfare
for the common man and woman" of his childhood.
My Life As a Priest
A young priest finds himself thinking what is unthinkable
for him: he no longer wants to be a priest, not if doing so means
ending up like the strange men he has sworn to obey. Essay
in the Recorder (Summer 2004), the journal of the American Irish
Historical Society (www.aihs.org).
In the Vatican Museum
The story of Daniel Fitzpatrick, a young priest who helps a parishioner
solve a moral dilemma in a unique manner. Included in The
Brandon Book of Irish Short Stories (Brandon
Books, 1998).
Saying Goodbye
A young Irishman living
in the U.S. goes home to see his dying father. Published in Here's
Me Bus (July 1995) and The Letter Box: An Anthology
of Writing from County Laois (1996).
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Upcoming Talks
Thursday, May 14, 2009
3 pm
Chaminade High School
Activity-Athletic Center
340 Jackson Avenue
Mineola, NY
Monday, June 15, 2009
7 pm
Schoolhouse Green
Foxhurst Road
(just east of Long Beach Road)
Oceanside, NY
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
1 - 2 pm
35th Annual Hofstra Summer Writers Conference
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
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Tom Phelan has appeared at venues in Ireland, England, France, and the United States, including the Hofstra University Summer Writers Conference, West Cork Literary Festival, King's Lynn Fiction Festival, Flat Lake Festival, Irish Writers Centre, American Conference on Irish Studies, North Shore Young Writers Conference, New York University Ireland House, Villanova University, American Irish Historical Society, Brehon Law societies, Molloy College, College of Mount St. Vincent, American Association of University Women, Western Front Association, Bandon War Memorial Committee, Achill Heinrich Boll Association, Avril Williams Guest House in Auchonvillers, Carlow Library, Oldcastle Library, Albany Public Library, and many others.
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