A Monk Manqué

Towards the Brink of the Cataract

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Unaware of the roaring cataract ahead, a small boy splashes in the dark river named Dodder, cheap buoyancy aids on his arms, flailing them in the manner called the dog’s paddle, eyes and mouth squeezed shut, neck stretched to keep his head above the surface. I shout a warning, which he must hear because he … Read more

A Monk Manqué – ‘what a young girl in love will say to keep her man’

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Disregarding chronological order, this is the tenth episode of A Monk Manqué, Bob Quinn’s unpublished (unpublishable?) memoir A Monk Manqué, following A Monk Manqué – Prologue A Monk Manqué – Thaura Mornton Making Films Early Days in RTÉ Waiting for Colonel Ghaddafi Culchies – An Excerpt from A Monk Manqué Last Days in RTÉ – … Read more