Martin Keaveney has returned with a new novel just in time for Christmas. Tommy O’Toole is a talented adolescent from a village at the centre of isolated bog swamps known as the ‘Mackon Country’. He lives in a mobile home with his father Joe who dreams of completing a half-built house in the field nearby.
Nights are spent with Uncle Midnight who plays poker while swilling Dutch Gold and recalling hero stories from his time in Lebanon. When Dad gets caught up in a local ATM robbery, Tommy begins a descent into organised crime. This is Martin Keaveney’s second novel after Delia Meade (2020 ) which followed the short story collection The Rainy Day (2018 ). The Mackon Country is published by Penniless Press, Warrington, UK. Martin teaches hundred of creative writers from all over the world in his online courses.
Martin Keaveney’s short fiction has been published in many literary journals in Ireland, UK and US. He has also written for the screen and his writing has been produced and exhibited at many international film festivals and on broadcast national television. His scholarship was recently published in the peer-reviewed New Hibernia Review, Journal of Franco-Irish Studies, Liverpool Journal of Postgraduate Studies and Estudios Irlandeses.
He has a B.A. in English and Italian, an M.A in English (Writing ) and a Ph.D. at NUIG (Creative Writing and Textual Studies ). He was awarded the Sparanacht Ui Eithir for his research in 2016 and the NUIG Write-Up Bursary in 2018. Martin Keaveney is an Associate Lecturer in Irish Literature at NUIG. See more at www.martinkeaveney.com See more at www.martinkeaveney.com
