Turlough

While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi''ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O''Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by th...