Historical novel set around ENGLAND (Birmingham)
The Run of the Country
Location(s): County Cavan
Genre(s): Fiction
In both A Border Station (1989) and The Run of the Country, Connaughton skilfully mined his Cavan upbringing for stories that revolved around generational conflict, sectarian bigotry and doomed emotional attachment. Both works are very much of their time and place: pre-peace process fictions preoccupied with different kinds of border-crossing, though neither offers much hope of reconciliation across the political divide. As the domineering father in The Run of the Country bleakly proclaims: “As long as that Border’s there fools’ blood is all you’ll get in this country. If they wanted peace they wouldn’t put a border up, would they?” Review by Liam Harte
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