Cin̩ priv̩ for Human Rights Day: Foster РDas Dritte Licht

Charta der Menschenrechte/Charter of Human Rights

Irmi Horn presents Claire Keegan and the story “DAS DRITTE LICHT”.
Claire Keegan (born 1968 in County Wicklow) is an Irish writer. She first became known for her short stories.

Keegan was born in 1968 as the youngest child of a Catholic family in County Wicklow in eastern Ireland, where she grew up on a farm. After studying political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, she obtained a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1992 and an M.Phil. in writing from Trinity College Dublin.

Reviewer Sigrid Löffler appreciates the density and stillness of Claire Keegan’s novels. The critic is therefore delighted that the Irish author’s second novel – originally published in 2009 – is now available in German. Once again, Keegan deals with the “pious dictatorship of sexual morality” in Ireland in the last century, the victim of which is an unnamed little girl who is placed in a foster family by her father, who is addicted to gambling and alcohol, at the beginning of the 1980s. But the foster family also has a secret: they see the girl as a replacement for their son who died in an accident, we learn. Not much more happens, Löffler admits. But how “carefully” the author describes the relationships between the characters and their “emotional movements” earns her the highest praise.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

We want to commemorate the hopefully everlasting Charter of Human Rights with a film by Colm Bairéad, IRL 2022.