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Members of De Valera Library Book Club will meet to discuss the 2022 Bealtaine Book Club ‘Freedom Is A Land I Cannot See’ by Peter Cunningham. New members welcome.
Freedom Is A Land I Cannot See, is Peter Cunningham’s most recent novel, it immerses the reader in the life of a family in Sutton, Co Dublin, in the early 1920s, as Ireland fights for her freedom.
Blinded in an attack in the aftermath of Irish independence, Rose Raven is living quietly with her brother. When she discovers he’s involved in anti-government propaganda, she tells no one, even her lover Rudy. When Ultan dies, Rose is the only person who knows where the shameful truth is hidden. Charting the dangerous first years of the Irish Free State, the novel tells the story of Rose’s secrets, every one of them a risk to the success of the new Ireland.
