GIVE THE STORY ON EVERYONE'S LIPS THIS CHRISTMAS: COLEEN ROONEY'S OFFICIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable new short-story collection. Called 'one of the most gifted writers of his generation' by the Irish Times, Blindboy Boatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.
These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboy Boatclub. Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box cat piss and astronauts. The view in my mirror was furry and violent.
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto.
