Faith, Fiction, Friends

It’s near Christmas of 1957 and heavily snowing. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford is called to County Wexford in Ireland to the ancest...

Irish writer  Claire Keegan  writes stories like  Johannes Vermeer  painted paintings: interior scenes, perfectly drawn, with far more going...

Moira Linehan Ounijan  (1945-2023) published four collections of poetry during her lifetime:  If No Moon  (2007),  Incarnate Grace  (2015), ...

Attorney Benedicta O’Keeffe’s friend Phyllis is hosting a literary festival in Glendara on the Inishowen Peninsula of Ireland. Somehow, she’...

I would like to say I read this somewhere, but I didn’t. The kinds of things, and questions, you’re interested in change as you age. When yo...

P rofessor O’Kelly is varying his normal routine. He’s been visiting a Neolithic tomb in his native Ireland (“older than Stonehenge, older t...

Attorney Benedicta O’Keeffe has returned to her practice in Glendara on the Inishowen Peninsula of Ireland, about as far north as you can go...

William Furlong lives a good if not well-to-do life. He operates a coal and timber hauling business in an Irish town, providing a decent liv...

It’s wedding time in Inishowen, the peninsula of County Donegal in Ireland. Leah, office manager and administrative assistant to attorney Be...

It’s a Christmas to remember. Shortly before the holiday, someone torches the much-loved pub in the town of Glendarra on the Inishowen Penin...

Attorney Benedicta O’Keeffe, known as Ben, has put a client off for a day. The client wants a will drawn up; in fact, she seems almost despe...

The Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal seems a cold, almost desolate place in the depths of winter. The northernmost extension of the Rep...

Jayne Sinclair is a former police detective, now turned private genealogical researcher. An elderly American dying of cancer gives her what ...