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The Kybe
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan
Originally published by Wolfhound press in 1983, The Kybe is a vivid historical novel of passion and conflict, where the lives of ordinary people unfold against the great sweep of history. Set in early nineteenth-century North County Dublin, it follows a close-knit community whose lives are bound together by work, faith, custom, and hardship. At its heart is Eileen Mullen, a woman of strength and complexity, torn between her devotion to her husband and children and her powerful attraction to a foreign soldier.
Richly detailed and immersive, the novel recreates a vanished world in striking detail — from daily labour and village customs to shipwrecks, local dances, a football match, and the haunting events of Waterloo.
In The Kybe, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan brings a lost community vividly to life in a compelling and deeply human story.
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Sold by: Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan is author of seven novels: The Kybe (1980), Ancestral Voices, On Borrowed Ground, Reprisal, In the Shadow of the Ombú Tree (2005), Barefoot as I Go (2010) and Landfall (2020), set variously in Napoleonic Ireland and seventeenth-century Uruguay. In 2024, he published Under the Rainbow, a collection of observations and reminiscences of a long life. He is a native of Skerries in north county Dublin and an accomplished artist whose drawings form the headpieces in many of his novels.
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