Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

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The Dancers Dancing

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

It is 1972: a group of teenagers, some from Dublin, some from Derry, are spending a month in the Irish-speaking district of Donegal, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and from the local people they are boarding with. Urban dwellers, released for the first time from the reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill, and seas, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged—and now emerging—wildness.

In this richly complex new novel. Ni Dhuibhne, one of Ireland’s most exciting and original writers,…

 
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