Damien Enright: 3 books

Ibiza, 1960: on the beautiful Mediterranean island, the high-rise resorts are still decades away. By chance, Damien Enright, twenty-one-years old and Irish, arrives there with his wife and two children and finds a handful of down-at-heel foreign Bohemians leading wild, hedonistic lives. He and his...

Damien Enright is a journalist, television writer-presenter, broadcaster and poet. He has written a weekly nature column in the*Irish Examiner *for twelve years. He is the author of five walking guides to West Cork and of the much acclaimed A Place Near Heaven.

West Cork is a magical place. The countryside has remained unspoiled and the people unaffected. A Place Near Heaven is the story of a calendar year in West Cork. Tranquil and beautifully written, it is a book in the finest tradition of writing on rural life and the natural world. In...