Song Of Duiske

In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Irelands many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbeys foundation. It evokes the textures and rhythms of a medieval religious settlement, its peaceful routines as well as occasional trials, and celebrates with quiet lyricism the seasons and their solaces, the open sky, the fields and the woods.