{"product_id":"9781843519898","title":"The Waking of Willie Ryan","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLong overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eThe Waking of Willie Ryan\u003c\/em\u003e reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid‑century Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan - once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory - who comes home to die and, in doing so, unsettles the pieties that once destroyed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBroderick's portrait of Willie is unforgettably tender: a gay man whose dignity, vulnerability and refusal 'to serve' expose the hypocrisies of a society built on fear. Through crystalline prose and an unsparing eye, Broderick maps the forces - clerical authority, bourgeois respectability, inherited shame - that shaped Irish life in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA pioneering exploration of queer Irish experience and a devastating critique of provincial cruelty, \u003cem\u003eThe Waking of Willie Ryan\u003c\/em\u003e stands alongside the great modern Irish novels for its moral clarity, elegance, and emotional force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"The Lilliput Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57247620333941,"sku":"9781843519898","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781843519898.jpg?v=1780491762","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781843519898","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}