Walk the Blue Fields

"Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out.

A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel.

A farmer wakes half naked and realises the money is almost gone.

A Harvard student flies south to celebrate his birthday at his step-father's condominium by the sea.

While the scent of hay drifts up from neighbouring fields, a teenage immigrant articulates the reason for her going.

And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair."