The Cruelty Men
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The Cruelty Men

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The Cruelty Men

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Abandoned by her parents when they resettle in Meath, Mary O Conaill faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. Padraig is disappeared, Seán joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town. Later, pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry where her twins are forcibly removed. Spanning the 1930s to the 70s, this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence. Wit, poetic nuance, vitality and authenticity inhabit this remarkable novel. The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence

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Information

Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781843517399
eBook ISBN
9781843517627
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. PART I: DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT
  7. Connaire O Mac Tire: Wolfland (1653)
  8. Mary: We Lived in a Dream at the Edge of the World (1935)
  9. Padraig: My Little White Darling
  10. Mary: The Graveyard Growth
  11. Padraig: Found by the Hag
  12. Mary: Bridget Is the First to Leave
  13. Padraig: This Can Happen
  14. Mary: My Hair Turns Grey and Maeve Leaves Home
  15. Padraig: With Little Boy a Thaw
  16. Mary: Little Padraig the Fairy Child
  17. Padraig: Makes a Whistle for Patsey
  18. Mary: You Never Knew What He Was Thinking
  19. Seamus: As Bold as a Pig in the Peas
  20. Padraig: Should Not Have Gone Near Him
  21. Seamus: There’s a Wild Look on Him
  22. Padraig: The Trap
  23. Seamus: It Is You Killed my Mother
  24. Mary: A Living Dread (1945)
  25. Padraig: Captured by Balor
  26. PART II: INSTITUTIONALIZATION
  27. Batt: He Was a Great Man for the Stories, It Was Said (1799)
  28. Mary: Mary’s Plan to Save Seán from Seamus and the Cruelty Men (1945)
  29. Maeve: A Very Pious Young Girl
  30. Mary: You Got Two Ends of the Rope
  31. Maeve: Poxy Trim Town (1946)
  32. Mary: The World Goes Around as if There Were Wings on It (1947)
  33. Seamus: I Had Burnt my Coal and Got No Heat
  34. Mary: Whatever Baby Likes
  35. Maeve: I’ve Watched You from the Landing
  36. Seamus: The Weaker Sex
  37. Maeve: It Was Just a Bit of Diversion
  38. Padraig: Whisper It from Tree to Tree
  39. PART III: A MARRIAGE, AND A BIRTH AND A DEATH
  40. Bride: The Earth Wails All Night Because It Has Dreamed of Beauty (1847)
  41. Maeve: My Eyes Were Painted On (1949)
  42. Seamus: A Letter from Brooklyn
  43. Padraig: The Land of Boiled Cabbage
  44. Mary: She’d Go to America and Start Again
  45. Padraig: Put One About You
  46. Maeve: We Have the Songs You Taught Us, That Is All
  47. Mary: The Veils Were Thinner at This Time of Year (1951)
  48. Maeve: He Had Taken Out My Soul and Opened It
  49. Mary: The Luck-Child
  50. Seamus: Then Something Queer Happened (1952)
  51. Mary: It’s a Blessing to Be in the Lord’s Hand as Long as He Doesn’t Close His Fist
  52. Padraig: Balor’s Eye
  53. Maeve: This Is Not a Hospital
  54. Padraig: Crack. They Break the Back
  55. Maeve: Meeting the Grass Man
  56. Seamus: Where Comes a Woman, There Follows Trouble
  57. Mary: We Learnt Their Tongue and Not They Ours (1953)
  58. Maeve: I Had Two Beautiful Children
  59. Hag: I Send Her Leaves and Feathers
  60. Mary: Face the Sun but Turn Your Back on the Storm
  61. Padraig: Crom Cruach in the Form of a Priest
  62. Mary: The Rubbish of Ireland
  63. Padraig: Bloody Slaughter Urges
  64. Mary: The King of Everything
  65. Padraig: Goes to the Centre of the Sun
  66. Mary: The Morning After the Sisters of Mercy Ball
  67. PART IV: THE CURSE
  68. Hag: I Chose Him, You Killed Him
  69. Sadhbh: Woe to Those Who Are Lost in the Time of a Storm (1900)
  70. Maeve: Most of Us Smelled of Paraffin (1953)
  71. Seamus: For Fear He Would Be a Hangman That Would Hang the People
  72. Mary: And Death Not Come to Me Until I Reach It
  73. Seamus: The Wiremen (1954)
  74. Maeve: Going Underground
  75. PART V: THE CLEARING
  76. Hag: You Dreamt of Losing and You Lost
  77. 435: Curly Hair Is a Sin (1956)
  78. Baby: Day of My Beloved, the Thursday (1958)
  79. Ignatius: A Walking Hoor (1962)
  80. Baby: Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy (1958)
  81. 435: We Prayed to the Blessed Virgin (1957)
  82. Ignatius: Bad Egg, Bad Bird (1962)
  83. Baby: Firbolgs and Fomorians Running Amok (1958)
  84. Ignatius: He’ll Be With Us for a While (1962)
  85. Baby: A Respectable Institution (1962)
  86. Ignatius: The Saint of Workers (1962)
  87. Baby: Finally, I Was Home in Kilbride (Christmas 1962)
  88. Ignatius: What Would Genghis Khan Have Done?
  89. Baby: He Should Have Run Off to Hollywood
  90. Ignatius: He Had a Head on Him Like a Lump of Wet Turf(1963)
  91. 435: And Make Her Like a Wilderness (1963)
  92. Ignatius: The Clearing (1963)
  93. 435: 890 Watching Out for 891 (1964)
  94. Ignatius: Sick as a Small Hospital (1964)
  95. Baby: More Nuns! (1964)
  96. Ignatius: Bleeding Gums (1964)
  97. Baby: She Took Me to the 4 Ps (1964)
  98. 435: The Wild History of Their Past Has Faded from Their Minds (1965)
  99. Baby: The Burning of the Books (1968)
  100. Ignatius: Now a Free Man (1968)
  101. Baby: Live Horse, and You Will Get Grass (1968)
  102. 435: The Mountains Are Not Dead (1969)
  103. Ignatius: All We Have Is Love (1969)
  104. Copyright