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SUMMARY:LAUNCHING OF IRISH NOVEL AT IRISH SOCIETY
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Tom Phelan’s Novel at Garden City Library\nThe
  paperback of Tom Phelan’s acclaimed novel Lies the Mushroom Pickers
  Told will be launched on Tuesday, March14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Garden
  City Public Library at 60\nSeventh St., Garden City, NY.  Sponsored 
 by the Irish Cultural Society, this event is free and open to all.\n 
          John Walsh, editor of the Hedgemaster, will introduce
  Tom Phelan.  Tom will discuss the background of the novel as well as
  read a couple of selections.  Books will be available for signing.\n
           The online book review site Shelf Awareness says Li
 es the Mushroom Pickers Told is “a masterful portrait of Irish villa
 ge life disguised as a murder mystery,” adding “Phelan finds humor
  and warmth in every poignant moment.” Publishers Weekly calls the b
 ook a “witty novel” and notes the “humor and the plentiful detai
 ls of the farming lifestyle do much to enrich Phelan’s entertaining 
 murder mystery.”\n     Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies 
 the Mushroom Pickers Told is a story about what holds a village togeth
 er and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken return
 s to the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the tow
 nspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that h
 appened decades earlier, when he was a boy, deaths that were ruled acc
 idental. But Patrick knows—and believes the whole town knows—they 
 were murders.  \n     Tom Phelan, a retired employee of the Garde
 n City Public Schools, grew up on a small farm in Co. Laois in the Iri
 sh midlands. He had just turned fifty when his first novel, In the Sea
 son of the Daisies, was accepted for publication. One reviewer later w
 rote, “The most obvious question posed by a novelistic debut with as
  much resounding vigour as this is: Where has Mr. Phelan been?” Sinc
 e then, Tom has written five more novels, Iscariot, Derrycloney, The C
 anal Bridge, Nailer, and Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told, as well as ma
 ny memoir pieces for the Irish Echo newspaper.\n\n\nFor more informati
 on visit https://thewildgeese.irish/events/launching-of-irish-novel-at
 -irish-society
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CATEGORIES:book, launching
LOCATION:Garden City Library
WEBSITE:http://irish-society.org
URL:http://irish-society.org
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER;CN="John M. Walsh":https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JohnMW
 alsh
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