quench the moon Author:walter macken No other novelist has so successfully portrayed the 'ordinary' people of the West of Ireland in the decades following independence. Quench the Moon tells an unvarnished story of Irelandin the 1940s, a country full of the contradictions of its newly won freedom. — It is also the story of Stephen O'Riorda, from the wild, hard and beautiful land of... more » Connemara, of his hopes and ambitions, and of his passionate and stormy love for Kathleen, sister of his bitter enemy.« less