Book description
In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at
Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys.
Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the
year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation. It evokes the
textures and rhythms of a medieval religious settlement, its peaceful
routines as well as occasional trials, and celebrates with quiet
lyricism the seasons and their solaces, the open sky, the fields and
the woods'. A little bouquet of beauty every page throws up a gem'
- Vincent Lawrence, Sunday Press Vision-like in its effect, to be
savoured rather than gulped a small classic of Irish literature' -
Seán Dunne, The Cork Examiner A tiny masterpiece like a miniature
painting. If I were forced to live on a desert island, the little book
I would want with me would be Song of Duiske' - Pat Donlon, RTE's
First Edition'
