This collection provides a number of important perspectives on the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Drawn from the annual lectures at the church in Farahy, in North Cork, where Bowen is buried, these essays provide insight into the life, fiction and beliefs of this most original and perceptive of writers.
Éibhear Walshe lectures in the Department of Modern English, University College Cork and is the editor of Ordinary People Dancing (1993), Sex, Nation and Dissent (1997) and co-editor of Representing the Troubles (2004).