Aisling's Cloud

325 pages
ISBN978-0-9941140-8-2

Aisling's Cloud is a new novel about the founding of the Irish Free State. It encompasses the 1917 Revolution, the Irish War of Independence, and the bloody and bitter Civil War.

Clouds and Music blend in the stormy skies of a troubled land; the Tommy Gun versus the Harp: love grows….

Aisling and Aidan face their changing lives through different lenses; his clouds, in a sky of time, hers music, an ever present background to life.

Aislings liberal sense of independent thought and action conflict with what is expected of her, yet her wealthy background and sense of entitlement melt in her feelings for intelligent and wily Aidan, who somehow must claw his way out of Dublin poverty.

Can their closeness survive the six short years of tumult and the vicious Civil War, where sides are taken, families divided, friends and relationships shattered and with counties in conflict?

These events from 1917 to 1923 were the final birth pains of a proud nation. Above this landscape the shadow of the Famine hovers, colouring outlooks and outcomes…