DELIA MEADE

Martin Keaveney

Paperback 6" x 9" 145pp  - ISBN 978-0-244-40613-4  Published 2020

Now the last of Delia Meade’s many children have married and moved away, she decides to tidy up the little room under the stairs, known as the Glory-hole. Amongst the forgotten toys, worn-out clothes and dusty boxes of photographs, Delia travels through happy and sad decades of her time at 109, Bog Road.

Delia Meade is Martin Keaveney’s debut novel. His debut short story collection, The Rainy Day, was published in 2018 by Penniless Press. Stage and screen credits include Ireland’s national broadcaster  RTE and Scripts Ireland Playwriting Festival. He has a PhD in Creative Writing and Textual Studies. Scholarship has been published in New Hibernia Review, Journal of Franco-Irish Studies and Estudios Irlandeses. He was awarded the Sparanacht Ui Eithir for his research in 2016. He works as a creative writing lecturer/consultant (see more at www.martinkeaveney.com).