Reflections via Alzheimer’s: Ian Maleney writes essays on rural life and his grandfather’s battle with illness
THE debut collection of essays from Ian Maleney is a sombre, quiet, reflective affair about life in the family homestead in rural Offaly as his grandfather John Joe succumbs to Alzheimer’s. Through this debilitating disease, Maleney contemplates the bog and peat cutting that his family has worked on for decades, muses on the midlands and how it feels almost left behind by the urban centres of Ireland, and ponders where exactly his future lies, touching on various art throughout the collection.
