Aois Fir (Irish Edition) - Softcover

Liam Ó Muirthile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907494502 ISBN 13: 9781907494505

Publisher: Cois Life, 2015

Synopsis

Aois Fir is a sea adventure about a young boy in his early teens on a sailing boat out at sea. His father and uncle are passed out drunk on board. They are no help. The boy must be a man now, face his fears and find out what he's made of in the face of a dilemma. It will soon be night and he must bring the boat, himself and the men to safety. Exquisitely written, the author captures the boy's internal tribulations at his predicament, from his recollected excitement at the start of the adventure, to his unease and increasing panic as he realises that if he loses his head, all is lost. The mixture of poverty and enterprise that have shaped the boy indicate that his father is not simply the feckless villain we initially take him for, but another real person trying likewise to do his best in difficult circumstances. The sea, particularly in its fearsomeness, is vividly described: both sea and boy, and the dramatic struggle between them, spring to life in the author's prose.

About this title

About the Author

Liam O Muirthile was born in Cork city in 1950, the first of nine children. Liam went to UCC on a City Corporation scholarship. He was a full-time member of the RTE news-staff from 1973 to 1991, working on radio and television. He has been a full-time writer and freelance journalist since 1991. He contributed a weekly column to The Irish Times from 1989 to 2003. He is a writer of prose, poetry, plays and journalism and has won many prizes including the Irish-American Cultural Foundation Prize (1984), the Butler Award (1996), the Arts Council Prize (2001) and Gradam Chlo Iar-Chonnacht (2000) for his poetry collection Walking Time and Other Poems. His novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi won the major fiction award in the Oireachtas (1995). His literary novel set in Paris, An Colm Ban (Cois Life, 2014), won a 2013 Oireachtas prize. Liam is a member of Aosdana and lives in Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cois Life
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1907494502
• ISBN 13: 9781907494505
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Irish
• Number of pages: 100