An tIriseoir - Leabhar mhí na Bealtaine 2018 / Book of the Month - May 2018

[English version below] Foréigean baile, saol scriosta, pósadh cliste. Éalaíonn Bríd ó Ghaoth Dobhair le dul i mbun iriseoireachta i mBaile Átha Cliath. Iriseoir díograiseach, ábalta agus cumasach í, a mhúchann na cuimhní cráite le tréan oibre. Titeann saol Bhríd as a chéile agus í ag fiosrú scéil ar a fód dúchais nuair a aithníonn sí go bhfuil a mac féin ina chroílar. Láithreoir: Seán Ó Catháin Aíonna: Niamh Ní Shúilleabháin agus Tristan Rosenstock [Leagan Gaeilge thuas] An award-winning collection of short stories from the celebrated novelist and short story writer, Beairtle Ó Conaire. This collection was awarded the Oireachtas Prize in 2006. Domestic violence, a broken marriage, a life destroyed. Bríd escapes from Gweedore to embark on life as a journalist in Dublin. She is a dedicated and capable journalist, and she finds solace and forgetfulness by throwing herself into her work to the exclusion of all else. But her life falls apart when she starts investigating a story in her own hometown, only to discover that her own son appears to be deeply implicated in it. Presenter: Seán Ó Catháin Guests: Niamh Ní Shúilleabháin and Tristan Rosenstock