Lakeland Lockdown Reflections: 2021

Written with pathos and humour, Girls Like You is a reflection on growing up in the early 1970s in the Irish Midlands. It is a story of love and loss, secrecy and abandonment, forgiveness and integration. It deals with the fallout of this period of Irish history on one individual and her immediate family while exposing the cost of an Irish solution to an Irish problem, a cost which still reverberates in society today as the truth slowly trickles out.

In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people's struggle to survive. In that struggle the country's links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, including the Irish Jesuits, with their international roots, played an important role.