Molly and the Lockdown

Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid accounts of their experiences as women writing.

Aon oíche amháin, téann fear darb ainm Mac Aoidh amach ag siúl cois cladaigh. Tchíonn sé scaifte de mhaighdeana mara ag snámh sa chuan agus bratacha s’acu caite le taobh carraige ar an trá. Sciobann Mac Aoidh leis ceann de na bratacha agus cuireann faoi cheilt é, ach gan a brat féin a bheith ag achan mhaighdean mara ní thig léi pilleadh ar an Domhan Faoi Thonn.

Do you know what a Brideóg is? Why are lone hawthorns unlucky? What does it mean to 'drown the shamrock'?