Langrishe Go Down PA

by Higgins,Aidan

• ISBN13: 9781564783523
• ISBN10: 1564783529
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-08-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Table of Contents

I 1937
The lights in the bus burned dim	11	(12)
Helen awoke in sour white daylight	23	(6)
Taking her time, Helen cycled slowly	29	(5)
Helen stood in the nave of the old church	34	(11)
Imogen closed the door behind her	45	(13)
The Angelus bell began ringing from the village	58	(4)
In Helen's room the Venetian blinds	62	(9)
I hear the wind in the high beech tree	71	(7)
The rockery and main garden grow wild	78	(5)
II 1932
Otto Beck lay in the meadow	83	(11)
One sunny, cloudless day	94	(5)
Late one night Imogen awoke	99	(5)
Why did I?	104	(2)
As the lights were out in Agnew's	106	(8)
Oh but it's true, Barry	114	(6)
When Imogen opened her eyes	120	(6)
Tollis peccata	126	(6)
About the same time that Imogen was boarding	132	(1)
He asked me would I go to the theatre with him	133	(5)
And you, he wanted to know, you are well off?	138	(9)
He led her along a ferny bridle path	147	(6)
She came again to the cottage	153	(9)
They followed the sheep path	162	(3)
Gin days; greenery everywhere	165	(6)
Imogen said with her teeth, her jaw	171	(5)
The autumn came and went	176	(3)
Dum bibitur . . . Otto said	179	(7)
Naked in the small cottage bedroom	186	(11)
He had been talking about his early student days	197	(12)
`Dear Otto'	209	(6)
An uncanny dusk. End of an uncanny day	215	(3)
Can I help it if I'm feeling sick?	218	(10)
Time passed. The pale white privet flowers	228	(4)
The child is dead	232	(5)
III 1938
The hearse stood at the gate	237	(8)
`Anschluss!'	245	(6)
Imogen awoke early	251