Colman Rushe: 3 books

Have you ever wondered about the ordinary lives of your Irish ancestors - these people who did not shape written history but who shaped you? How did the tenant-farmers, labourers, fishermen and others survive to raise their families while coping with poverty, famine, war and oppression as well as...

Peter Howard, a soon-to-retire bank manager in a large Irish town during the Celtic Tiger, is asked to temporarily take over the job of Joan Archer, a colleague who has been suspended from duty without explanation. Peter deals with the impact on the staff, the self-serving attitude of Joan’s customers...

Following the tiger kidnapping of the wife of a bank official in a small, west of Ireland town, Tom Judge, a divorced bank inspector in his mid-fifties, is sent to investigate and to liaise with the police enquiry. When the police suspect that the kidnap victim and her husband might be complicit in...