Carlo Gébler is a novelist, critic, biographer, playwright, memoirist and broadcaster. His recent books include A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island 1989–2024,  I, Antigone, Tales We Tell Ourselves: A Selection from the Decameron, Aesop’s Fables and The Innocent of Falkland Road. He has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

It is a sad, beautiful and wise meditation on ageing, grief and death, as well as a portrait of his late mother, one of Ireland’s great writers.

Carlo Gébler is a novelist, critic, biographer, playwright, memoirist and broadcaster. His recent books include A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island 1989–2024,  I, Antigone, Tales We Tell Ourselves: A Selection from the Decameron, Aesop’s Fables and The Innocent of Falkland Road. He has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

It is a sad, beautiful and wise meditation on ageing, grief and death, as well as a portrait of his late mother, one of Ireland’s great writers.

Carlo Gébler is a novelist, critic, biographer, playwright, memoirist and broadcaster. His recent books include A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island 1989–2024,  I, Antigone, Tales We Tell Ourselves: A Selection from the Decameron, Aesop’s Fables and The Innocent of Falkland Road. He has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

It is a sad, beautiful and wise meditation on ageing, grief and death, as well as a portrait of his late mother, one of Ireland’s great writers.