Falling Umbrella Hunter Night: A Novelette

JULY 1940. The panzers have swept across Europe, crushing all before them. U-boats swarm the seas and the Luftwaffe refills its bombers. Hitler is coiling, but where will he strike?

While the world waits with bated breath, the village of Ballanaul, in the west of Ireland, is preparing to defend itself against all comers. Tom Toomey, would-be poet, is armed and waiting alongside a retired policeman, three schoolboys and a mysterious blow-in. With any luck, Tom will impress Peggy; the local beauty. And if some potcheen helps him along, all the better.

Falling Umbrella Hunter Night is a tale of love and hate, of bigotry and camaraderie, of the ideas that move us and the forces that shape us. It unfurls the unsettling question: “where do we go from here?”