The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong review – a profound exploration of Ireland’s dark times | Imagination
AAbout 14% of Ireland is moorland: vast areas of moss-covered land, beneath which layers of ancient history have blended into the moist grass-black turf. Captivated by their unearthly beauty, Seamus Heaney wrote some of his best poems about bogs – and about the bodies discovered, perfectly preserved, in their eerie depths. Sheila Armstrong’s excellent second