County Tipperary will be Saoirse’s whole world. Her distraught mother worries that “if she ever goes to America the yanks won’t have a clue how to pronounce it,” but she needn’t worry about that. Such is the abiding miracle of “The Queen of Dirt Island.” Here, in Ryan’s seventh book, unfolds the story of a small Irish village “that nobody’d ever heard of, tucked between a hillside and a lake.” That baby who arrives under such inauspicious circumstances is named Saoirse, which means “freedom” in Irish. But from that cruel soil grows a life of unbridled joy and affection. Her mother was ostracized for getting pregnant her father was killed the day she was born. The girl at the center of Donal Ryan’s exquisite new novel is born into animosity and grief.
From a Washington Post review by Ron Charles of the book by Donal Ryan titled “The Queen of Dirt Island”:
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