![]() ![]() The story is a page-turner that offers insight into Irish politics and ancient Celtic culture, as well as some modern Irish slang, as Fergus’ choices lead him first down one path and then on to another as he longs to make sense of the world around him, past, present, and future. While his days are occupied with running, studying for exams, and first love, at night Mel comes to him in dreams to tell him her tale of love and sacrifice. Caught in the Troubles between his devotion to his brother Joe, a hunger-striker in Long Kesh prison, aka The Maze, and his growing friendship with Owain, a Welsh soldier in the British army who enlisted to avoid working in the Welsh mines, he finds distraction when he discovers the bog body while illegally cutting peat with his uncle Tully. to stave off the crop failure and starvation of a prolonged winter perhaps caused by the eruption of Mt. In the span of the book he discovers an ancient bog body, Mel, a young dwarf woman sacrificed in 80 A.D. Fergus, the main character, lives in a town bordering the Irish south and the British-occupied north. Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd is an Irish story within a story. ![]()
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