Do You Like Oranges?

by Kevin Doyle

Three short stories about a bleak period in recent Irish history when ‘heavy’ methods were used by the police to clamp down on political dissent. In the title story, a man returning from Australia relives the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Special Branch as he closes in on the main perpetrator. In But Your Mother a protester is made to realise that his activities will have unfortunate consequences for those close to him if he continues with what he is doing. While in the final story, Down The Tunnels, a former detective in the process of mental disintegration, examines his famous role in the 'big case' when a number of innocent men were framed for their part in an audacious robbery.

35 pages, ebook

First published November 17, 2011

About the author

Kevin Doyle is a writer from Cork, Ireland. He is the author of A River of Bodies (Blackstaff, 2019) and To Keep A Bird Singing (Blackstaff, 2018). With Spark Deeley he also wrote the illustrated children’s book, The Worms That Saved The World (Chispa, 2017). He has been shortlisted for many short story awards and won the Michael McLaverty Award in 2016. Apart from fiction, he has written extensively about Irish and radical politics from an anarchist perspective.

Reviews

[solitaryfossil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three brief (35 pages), well-written and interesting short stories set during The Troubles. Wonderful Irish storytelling, I enjoyed this short collection a lot.

[Lorna Sixsmith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this, particularly the first of the three stories. Atmospheric and scary without being gory. Brings back a lot of history that we'd all prefer to forget and hoping it stays in the past.