This vivid and masterfully woven collection of short stories explores the condition of Ireland's people as the country cautiously steps towards modernity. Caught between tradition and change, these characters long to move forward, yet fear what they might lose.In the title story, 'Organ Voluntary', an underappreciated parish organist clashes with a vain young cleric, culminating in a hilariously disastrous Easter spectacle. In 'A Snowman in July', a lonely schoolteacher forms an am...

All eight series of the comedy drama series set in a Donegal town in the 1950s and '60s'Christopher Fitz-Simon's writing is a delicious mix of gentle and sharp' The GuardianIreland in the fifties, and the days of mass tourism and indoor plumbing have not yet come to rural Co. Donegal. But in the small, sleepy town of Ballylenon, change is coming, and trouble is brewing.A power struggle is under way for control of t...