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In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills \u2014 and it\u2019s going to take Ireland\u2019s only superhero to stop it\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In honor of Saint Patrick’s day… a taste of something Irish for #SampleSunday.<\/p>\n

The Irish Thing can hardly avoid being part of the \u201cground of being\u201d of someone who\u2019s lived in Ireland for nearly a quarter-century. That familiarity, though, with the way things really are here (insofar as anyone, \u201cblow-in\u201d or native, can ever tell what\u2019s really going on in this island\u2026) can make the inhabitant a little impatient with the perceptions of outsiders: particularly those who think Ireland is some kind of theme park that should be preserved to match its overflow into the last couple of centuries\u2019\u00a0popular culture. I have actually stood in Dublin Airport and heard fellow Americans complaining that Ireland has broadband: as if it\u2019s somehow polluting the cultural purity of the place. (I saw another American look around absolutely without irony or humor intended and say, disbelieving, \u201cI thought it was supposed to be thatched.\u201d\u00a0The airport. Was supposed. To be thatched.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026Yeah. So you will understand that when I was invited to participate in an anthology called\u00a0Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy,<\/em> before I decided what story I wanted to write, I asked casually if I could see a list of the other contributors. When I saw the list, it was as I thought: only one of them (our former neighbor Morgan Llewellyn) had ever lived here. One of them (the excellent Tanith Lee) might have at least\u00a0been<\/em> here. And I knew in my bones what way everyone else would be going with their stories: the Celtic twilight, thatch everywhere, the soft green countryside, the old school Ireland and the old-school myths of a century or so back. I immediately thought,\u00a0Somebody\u2019s got to actually get into<\/em> Dublin,\u00a0where a third of the damn population lives! Somebody\u2019s got to at least spend a<\/em> little\u00a0time in the here and now. \u2026I\u2019m going urban on this one.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I wrote “Herself”. The first part of the story appears here.<\/a> Edited to add:<\/i><\/b> During St. Patrick’s week of 2011, this story was available by itself for (US) 99\u00a2. That offer is over, but the story appears in the Uptown Local and Other Interventions<\/i> anthology, which is available for USD $5.99 at the page linked to above.<\/p>\n

Enjoy, folks!\u00a0 …And don’t dye the beer green.<\/p>\n

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