The Crying of the Wind

Ireland

Ithell Colquhoun author Jennifer Higgie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Publishing:5th Jun '25

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 5th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Crying of the Wind cover

Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a surrealist painter, Colquhoun's travels around the island are guided by her artist's eye and her feeling for the world beyond our own, as well as her spikily humorous view of the people she meets. We encounter faeries and pagan rituals, ruined churches and Celtic splendour, rowdy bohemians and Anglo-Irish landowners fallen on hard times, as the author carouses through Dublin and tramps the hills of Connemara in this classic travelogue. Richly visual and full of sly wit, this is an account of Ireland as only Colquhoun could see it, a land where myth and magic meet wind and rain, and the song of the secret kingdom is heard on city streets.

'I swear this book burns invisibly with its own quiet and consoling heat.' -

'A rare and beautiful book...Has the authentic touch of the Gothic novelist' - TLS

'She has not only a painters eye but something of the natural sociability and engaging nosiness of the travelling artist...an original and perceptive companion' - The Sunday Times

'An intelligent and evocative piece of roving reportage on a high literary level. This scholar, poet and painter is a keen observer who has read widely and deeply...Original and stimulating' - Irish Times

'Colquhoun has a very beguiling pen...To Irish landscapes she brings a painters eye, writing particularly beautifully about skies, twilights, river valleys, sea-frayed coasts and the intensive atmosphere of remote places' - Tatler

ISBN: 9781805331568

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

192 pages