Memorable tales from heart of the Kingdom

I won’t tell ye the significance of the Kerryman Van at all. And I won’t utter any further praise of any kind for a book which kept me turning pages all night.

Kevin O’Brien, who has recently published ‘The Kerryman Van’, a personal memoir which Cormac MacConnell here describes as “compellingly readable at every level”.

The purest of all the truths is that writing this piece is extremely painful for me. Every word is akin to a droplet of blood extracted from a block of Ulster granite.