Ethnology: a love song for Connemara by Cathy Galvin Emily Berry rock flight is a book-length

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Ethnology: a love song for Connemara by Cathy Galvin Emily Berry rock flight is a book-lengthPublished 19th February 2026 Ethnology draws on the mystical cry for the dead of Cathy Galvin's Irish speaking ancestors. Within an epic narrative she reclaims place, people and language, creating a bridge between our own times and a Connemara community on the margins of Europe. Drawing on classic forms within literary and oral traditions, Ethnology becomes a love song for Connemara, witness to vivid encounters: between the living and the dead and