Description
A prize-winning jewel of a novel from the pen of one of Ireland’s finest poets, telling the story of a man close to the poet’s own heart — Garret FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond (1335-1398), chieftain, viceroy, poet, and a man who loved women — the man baptized by the Irish as ‘Gearóid Iarla’.
This novel won the Oireachtas ‘Book of the Year’ awaed and was named by Comhar as one of the ‘ten best novels since the turn of the century’.