Reviews for The Irish Eros

The average rating for The Irish Eros based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-30 00:00:00 Ariel Rieken I read Home Sickness by Moore, The Twisting of the Rope by Yeats, An Autumn Night in the Hills by Synge, The Weaver's Grave by O'Kelly, and The Dead by Joyce. My favorite of the stories I read was The Weaver's Grave, my least favorite was probably An Autumn Night In the Hills. I also don't have an affinity for James Joyce the way everyone else seems to have (although I'm not convinced most people have even read Joyce, but everyone swears he's so great). I like Irish fiction, and this was a good book. But I don't think many of the people in my class share my sentiments for Irish literature.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-29 00:00:00 Lulu Ennis *3.5* i'm not very into short-story collections. at the risk of sounding really silly, i have to say they confuse me at times. my mind cannot help trying to build some sense of continuity from one story to the next even though i know they're not connected and, as it's the case with this particular anthology, they're not even written by the same authors. but my mind does this nevertheless to my annoyance. that being said (and taking in consideration this detail) i thought this was quite a solid collection. not going to lie, i did get bored at times with some of these stories but, overall, those were part of the minority. and i think what helped me the most to enjoy these stories separately was how it managed to deal with a wide range of topics. of course, they are all about ireland, of course. but some were quite silly dealing with more domestic issues or retelling folk tales whilst others were more serious and darker yet all of them (on some level or another) were always political. and somehow felt genuine despite the fact that i'm not irish and i haven't been there before.