The Red Men

Patrick McGinley’s sixth novel, true to his distinctive style, is set in the austere and haunting landscape and shoreline of the author’s native county, Donegal, Ireland. Love and death appear as the inescapable enigmas of being in the world.

The Red Men is rich in vocabulary, in the particularities of daily life, and in various surprising areas of arcane lore.

Patrick McGinley (b 1937) is an Irish novelist, born in Glencolumbkille, Ireland.

After teaching in Ireland, McGinley moved to England where he pursued a career as a publisher and author. Among his strongest literary influences is his Irish predecessor, author Flann O’Brien, who McGinley emulates most noticeably in his novel The Devil’s Diary.