The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

Author: Barry, Sebastian

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 June 2006 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
126 x 197 x 38 | 252g

Old God's Time (March 2023), Sebastian Barry's stunning new novel, available to pre-order nowFollowing the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him he is forced to flee Sligo, his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv. What follows is the story of this flight, his subsequent wanderings, and the haunting pull of home that always afflicts him. Tender, witty, troubling and tragic, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty tells the secret history of a lost man.