Walter Keady

• Oct-1997
• / General Fiction
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It is 1945, and in a rural Irish village called Creevagh, a young man waits eagerly for the mail, convinced that one letter will bring his salvation. Since the age of reason, Phelim O'Brien has been obsessed by a morbid fear of hell; and from the age...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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A “delightful” story (Library Journal) of life, love, and faith in a rural Irish parish-a “sweet and funny” book that “just makes you feel good” (Orlando Sentinel).
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• Nov-1999
• / Literary
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After her father's death, Sister Mary Thomas leaves her convent to reclaim the family farm in the Irish village of Kildawree. In 1950, her status as ex-nun scandalizes the women of the village, but her beauty, strength, willfulness and wit attrac...

• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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Set in modern Ireland against a background of growing affluence and changing mores, 'The Altruist' is the story of Eilis O’Connor, granddaughter of the eponymous protagonist of Walter Keady’s previous novel, 'Mary McGreevy'. Eilis...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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In 1946 rural Ireland, Brideen Conway has her heart set on Kieran McDermot, but one thing stands in the way of their union. The couple can't afford to marry, and Kieran's curmudgeonly father won't pass down the family farm. Kieran faces the unpleasan...

• Jun-2012
• / Historical
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This historical novel deals with a period of late nineteenth century Irish history known as the Land War, in which an ex-convict, Michael Davitt, roused the tenant farmers against their oppressors and initiated the struggle that ended landlordism in ...

• Sep-2017
• / Historical Mystery
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Irish landlord Lord Mulkaine is not a well-loved man. Like his father before him, he sees his tenant farmers as little more than a source of income, headaches, and trouble, and he'll do whatever is necessary to enforce his ownership of their land and...