Fiche

Fiche: 200 pp; paperback; 978-1-913814-64-9

In the summer of 1969, on the beaches of west Cork. three young people are brought together, three people whose lives are fundamentally changed when a fourth person, the grandson of the General, joins them. Ten years later, the story ends with the General on his deathbed. This is a story of love and tragedy set in a parallel world, not very different to our own.

Winner of the 2024 Oireachtas Prize

“Here is a skilled novelist, who knows how to arouse curiosity and draw a reader into a story.” —Róisín Ní Gharbhí

“This is a lovely story, a story of love and relationships, set in an Ireland that is a little different from the country we are used to.”  —Liam Mac Cóil

A love story set in a slightly different Ireland

Colm Ó Ceallacháin lives in Cork. Two collections of short stories with him have been published, I d’Tír Mílis na mBeo (2017) and Ré na Fathach (2021). He has won Oireachtas awards, as well as awards from the Arts Council. Fiche is his first novel.

“Fiche is a highly original, thought-provoking and impressive début novel from a very talented writer. It certainly deserved its shortlisting for this year’s Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, the award for best new work of prose in Irish.” — Anna Heussaff, Books Ireland

Read the review in Books Ireland

Read an excerpt from the novel.