Stories set in Ireland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and India, penetrating stories woven out of Gabriel Rosenstock's own fantastic worlds, some newly translated from the Irish, others appearing in English for the first time. "The Partisan and other stories" has a stunning range of moods, styles, voices and themes - from the quirky and mirth-provoking to the magically lyrical - all inviting the reader to engage in an entrancing and passionate conversation about the nature of reality.

Richard Madden (1798-1886) Irishman and British colonial administrator, crusader against slavery and biographer of the United Irishmen, subverted his postings to Jamaica, Cuba, West Africa and Western Australia to champion the civil rights of oppressed peoples. He played a key role in securing the captives' release in the infamous 1839 case of the slave-ship Amistad. A thorn in the side of various colonial elites on three continents, Madden witnessed the horror of the Irish Famine and the oppression of the Australian Aborigines. Living by his wits, socially and politically, he supported the...

This well-crafted novel is one of the few novels in either Irish or English that explores this generation of Irish people, often termed the "silent" or "lost generation" when over a half-a-million people emigrated, primarily to Britain, to work in the post-war economy there - "building England up and tearing it down again."