How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. 9781800182387 Poguemahone 44.6000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/contemporary Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate.

It is a wild free-verse monologue steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined, on a scale Patrick McCabe has never attempted before. Poguemahone is a wild, shape-shifting epic from one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. How a young Una finds herself living in a hippie squat haunted by vindictive ghosts in Kilburn in the early 1970s.Īnd, finally, how all that survives now of those sex-and-drug-soaked times are Una's unspooling memories and Dan himself, whose role in the story becomes stranger and more sinister.

How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s Soho. Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. How a young Una finds herself living in a hippie squat haunted by vindictive gho.

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