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Salvage

by Richard Kearney

Tradition and change on an Irish island

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Tradition and change on an Irish island

Set in 1939 on an island off Ireland’s south coast, *Salvage* places Maeve O’Sullivan at a turning point after her father’s death. As the family’s last inheritor of traditional healing practices, she faces a choice shaped by two arrivals: Seamus, a medical student bound for Dublin, and the prospect of a more modern future. The island setting and the reference to St Brigid connect the novel’s personal crossroads with questions about inherited knowledge, healing, and the natural world. Its central tension is not simply old versus new, but whether these ways of understanding life can coexist.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set in Ireland and shaped by island life.
  • Readers drawn to stories about traditional healing and changing medical practice.
  • Readers interested in tensions between inherited customs and modernity.

Themes

Tradition and progressTraditional healing and medicineIrish island lifeInheritance and cultural knowledgeNature and Gaelic wisdom

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Book overview

It's 1939 and young Maeve O'Sullivan and her family are among the last inhabitants of a windswept island off the south coast of Ireland. After her father's death, Maeve finds herself the last inheritor of the old ways of healing. But the future beckons to Maeve with the arrival of Seamus, a handsome young medical student heading for Dublin. Maeve suddenly finds herself at a crossroads, torn between the pull of the past and the lure of the modern. Must she sacrifice one in order to accommodate the other?
St Brigid, patroness of poetry, craft and midwifery, hovers over this richly evocative story about the tension between progress and tradition. Timely and timeless, Kearney's novel offers sensual homage to a singular landscape brimming with a Gaelic wisdom about the natural world.

 

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