Paloma

by Pól Ó Muirí

Tells the story of Paloma Pettigrew, a young female Garda who moves to the quiet countryside but comes across unexpected problems and has a complicated and dangerous crime to solve.

50 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

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.