Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty | Sebastian Barry
6 posts | 4 read | 11 to read
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him he is forced to flee Sligo, his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv. What follows is the story of this flight, his subsequent wanderings, and the haunting pull of home that always afflicts him. Tender, witty, troubling and tragic, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty tells the secret history of a lost man.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Suet624
post image
Pickpick

I picked a book off the shelf & discovered it was the second book in a trilogy. So I ordered this first of the trilogy. Eneas is a common man in Ireland, put on a blacklist by the IRA for working with the British police for a short time. He must flee for the remainder of his days and we follow him as he navigates his life through his fear and feelings of loss.(The photo is from Hope Cemetery - Barre, VT. This sculptor made his own gravestone.)

kspenmoll The book sounds intriguing- love that grave stone. 3mo
Suet624 @kspenmoll not exactly uplifting but I grew to care for Eneas a great deal. I think you would really like this cemetery. I took so many photos of amazing Vermont granite gravestones. (edited) 3mo
48 likes2 stack adds2 comments
blurb
literateBee

Possibly too-well written, if such a thing is possible.

review
kellock
post image
Pickpick

It was a toss up between so-so and pick. The story took a while to get going, some sentences sprawled a bit and sometimes I wasn't even sure what was occurring but in the end the trials and tribulations of Eneas won me over.

blurb
kellock
post image

I think i may need reading glasses, having to make my text larger 🤓

blurb
kellock
post image

In the middle of the lonesome town, at the back of John Street, in the third house from the end, there is a little room.

blurb
kellock
post image

Next up. Always a fan of a Barry novel.