Freedom to dream in unfamiliar surroundings
Few debuts in Irish fiction were as welcomed as Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse, Philip O’Ceallaigh’s rich kaleidoscope of a collection, which was published in 2006 and featured characters of multiple nationalities from many different social classes,
The Pleasant Light of Day
By Philip O´ Ceallaigh
Penguin Ireland, €15
Few debuts in Irish fiction were as welcomed as Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse, Philip O’Ceallaigh’s rich kaleidoscope of a collection, which was published in 2006 and featured characters of multiple nationalities from many different social classes, but were driven by an essential humanity.
As with Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse, the stories in this second collection from O’Ceallaigh are lit ...