Andrew M. Greeley “Irish Eyes” Tom Doherty
Associates, 2000, Paperback: 342 pp.
Now a fifth Greeley
novel.
More tales of
Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman from Galway blessed with the
gift of second sight and a knack for unraveling mysteries joined by a newly
born baby girl, Nellie Coyne, with the same fey instincts as her
Mother. Of course, we still have the
husband Dermot Michael Coyne. This book
remains centered in Chicago and the history of that town from the late 19th
century as it relates to the plot.
This story
begins at the husband’s parent’s Lake Michigan summer home when Nuall Anne has
a vision of the ramming and sinking of a ship on a stormy night 100 years ago;
the six-month old daughter apparently has a similar vision. This vision leads the husband-wife team to
explore the history of the Irish in Chicago.
Even the Balkan Mafia is worked into the plot. The story does not get us back to Ireland as
all the other stories did—much to my dismay.
But it is a good story, at least for me.
I like to weave some of this light reading into my more tedious stuff.
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