Frank Delaney: Ireland: A Novel [2005] paperback PHOTO Gerry Adams

Gerry Adams

Now journalist Erin Sloane has been commissioned to dig deeper into the story and is sent notes from someone long forgotten

to simple pleasures on a cosy island in the Pacific Northwest

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and European policymakers

Frank Delaney: Ireland: A Novel [2005] paperback PHOTO Gerry AdamsOne evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine year old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves, he devotes his life to finding him again. It is a search that uncovers both passions and mysteries, in his own life as well as the old man's,