Triangle: Three Novellas of Ireland

by Pól Ó Muirí

In Triangle, Pól Ó Muirí meditates on contemporary Ireland in three novellas that shadow one another. Touching on issues relating to language, religion, history and economics, Ó Muirí offers a poignant reflection on Ireland and its people as they buckle under the forces of globalisation. He shades the paths of three men as modern Western mores try to unstitch them from their land and their heritage. They live in a country in which they feel they have no power or influence; a country in which their families had no power or influence in the past. They are abandoned and adrift but, nonetheless, belong to ancient communities of faith and culture. They are searching for their place in contemporary society—for their home.

100 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2023

About the author

Born in 1965, Pól Ó Muirí is a writer and journalist in both the Irish and English languages. He has been the Irish-language editor of Fortnight Review and frequent commentator and reviewer in The Irish Times, later Irish-language editor; winner of Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary award with novel, Dlíthe an Nádúir (2001), a novel dealing with the conflict between a ban garda (a female member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police service) in rural Ireland and the local gombeen man; also issues novels for adult learners (Paloma; Dlíthe an Nádúir; Teifeach) dealing with the experiences of Marika, a Bosnian refugee in Ireland.