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Even Still
Published by Arlen House, 2025.
Shortlisted for the Short Story of the Year Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards.
Celia de Fréine brings a poet's sensibility to this first collection of short stories: from the half-glimpsed truths of childhood to the small, telling details of an elderly woman recalling the betrayals and disappointments of her young life. Her prose is compelling, her characters' voices pitch perfect. From Dublin's mean streets to the nineteen forties in the north of Ireland, ordinary life takes centre stage, transformed into something luminous.
Catherine Dunne
Celia de Fréine is a marvel. With its unique, characteristically stark, witty perspective on the lives of women and girls, this collection is a welcome addition to her already extensive, multi-genre body of work in both Irish and English.
Lia Mills
Celia de Fréine is a modern-day O'Casey. 'The Story of Elizabeth', her much lauded short story, is replete with the social realism and dark humour of the playwright, though she brings with her a 21st century sensibility and awareness of the stories that have remained hidden for so long.
Nessa O'Mahony
Read a review of Even Still (Humour and author's voice stand out in collection) in The Irish Examiner
Read a feature on Even Still in Writers Chat
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