Caught in Amber
In early 2007, Lucan Creative Writers Group published their first anthology of short stories, prose and poetry, titled Caught In Amber.
The anthology was edited by Eileen Casey & published by South Dublin County Council (ISBN 0-9553798-0-6).
What the critics said:
- "Captures the voices, views and memoirs of Lucan's local talent... The character and insight of the best contributions are pure gold"
— Critical Mick, www.mickhalpin.com - "Skillfully edited... It would be hard to imagine a reader not stirred by something amid the myriad lives explored here"
— Dermot Bolger, South Dublin County Council Writer-in-Residence
You can buy a copy online for just €10 €6 including free postage worldwide!
Description from the back cover:
Caught in Amber brings together rich and varied work from a group of writers based in Lucan Library. Some of the voices in this anthology are being heard for the first time. Others have already been published in outlets such as New Irish Writing (The Sunday Tribune), Ireland's Own, County Lines: A Portrait Of Life in South Dublin County (New Island) and broadcast on RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany. All of them, however, strive to achieve in their fiction, poetry or prose what Bryan McMahon, talking about the creative process, once described as allowing the reader "into the driver's seat of another's imagination and seeing the road ahead in a new way".
Contents:
- Introduction — Eileen Casey
- The Common Market — Joan O'Flynn
- Seagulls and Oak Trees — Joe McKiernan
- Family Fortunes — Dympna Murray-Fennell
- The Flower Box — Louise Phillips
- Coats — Colm Keegan
- One Kick — Colm Keegan
- Caught in Amber — Tríona Walsh
- God (and everyone else) Calling! — Patricia O'Shea
- Moments — Maurice Flynn
- Long Live the Lost Things — Colm Keegan
- The Wind — Elizabeth Reid
- A New Beginning — Joan Byrne
- Phoenix Risen — Patricia O'Shea
- Them — Eileen Casey
- The Trunk — Dympna Murray-Fennell
- Jump into the Unknown — Joe McKiernan
- Mannin Woman — Joan O'Flynn
- A Place in Time — Louise Phillips
- Blood — Marie Tarpey
- The Washing Yard — Louise Phillips
- Eleanore, Fame and the Evening Herald — Tríona Walsh
- The Man Who Lost Some Sleep — Joe McKiernan
- Old Man — Joan Byrne
- A Winter Break — Dympna Murray-Fennell
- 38 Buckingham Street — Joan Byrne
- Lakes — Colm Keegan