U Cronin: 3 books

It's Ireland's 1995 divorce referendum and things are hotting up on UCG's campus. Alison Lennon's feminist radio show is on the front line, taking a lot of flak from the college's large body of Christian youth activists. The referendum won, Alison decides to go for broke and...

Elvis, aka Declan Rigney, has lived in his own world for thirty years. He talks like Elvis Presley, dresses like Elvis Presley and even lives on a "ranch" called Graceland. Full-time beef farmer and part-time musician, he drafts in young electronic music producer Darragh O'Loughlin to freshen...

There is often the look of an angel on the Devil himself – old Irish expression. When a statue of the Virgin Mary in a Lourdes grotto outside a small village in rural Ireland begins to move, the countryside is plunged into a fever of religious mania. Thousands ― the faithful, the sceptical,...