Tag: Louise Kennedy

Irish secrets: Trespasses and Truth Be Told

Feb 16, 2023

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Pen

in Irish Troubles, Northern Ireland, value of the arts, YA Irish fiction

The intensity of the forbidden Sleeping with the enemy. The intensity of the forbidden. Always a topic to set the mind questioning and the heart racing. The protagonist of Louise Kennedy’s Belfast novel Trespasses, Cushla Lavery (whose given name derives from the Irish phrase A chuisle mo chroi – the pulse of my heart) is…