The Glow of Christmas

The Glow of Christmas

A tangle of Truths, Chaos, and Christmas Not So Long Ago

Stories by Maurice Brosnan

Christmas was never tidy where I came from. It was noisy, holy, chaotic — and comic — all at once.

In The Glow of Christmas, Maurice Brosnan gathers a lifetime of rural Irish memories into a warm, mischievous, and deeply human collection of Christmas stories. From Halloween, The Púca, Card Drives and Drunken Postmen to candle-lit prayers and mothers with Holy Water at the ready, these are the Christmases of not so long ago — where faith, humour, and neighbourly life met under one roof.

Praised by Alice Taylor, who writes:

“Maurice Brosnan paints clear and entertaining pictures of a way of life now gone…
You will smile your way through these stories!”

Maurice is 74 and grew up in North Cork, surrounded by talk, memory, and laughter. This is his fourth book in three years, following A Life Unfolding and Whispers of the Past (the latter featured on RTÉ Radio 1’s Liveline 2024 ).

A book to make you laugh, pause, and remember — especially if you know that Christmas was never just one thing.