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Ambitious and daring in its scope, this is an extraordinary book – an emotional history of Ireland over the course of a century. Imagination, knowledge and compassion are skilfully interwoven to produce stories that are as entertaining and moving as they are edifying. The personality of the writer illuminates every page. Enthralling! – Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
The depth and nuance of the individual characters’ stories in Tiny Bruises… give pause to a study of our history’s broad strokes, forcing a realisation that the layers of complexity, contradiction, self-deceit and occlusion that characterised our progress as a young nation are still very much extant and as hard to fathom. McManus makes a remarkable and timely contribution to our understanding of ourselves. – Donal Ryan
A central dimension of ethical remembering is a refusal of conscious amnesia, not only of persons but of events too. It requires the inclusion of marginalised voices, the disenfranchised, voices ‘from below’, in our individual and collective recollections of the past. Tiny Bruises demonstrates, with great lyrical potency and beauty, that creative writing has an important role in meeting such a challenge. – Michael D Higgins
