Dancing to an Irish Reel Claire Fullerton 9780990304258 Books
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While on sabbatical from her job in the Los Angeles record business, twenty-five-year old Hailey Crossan takes a trip to the west coast of Ireland , where she walks into the Galway Music Center and is offered a job too good to turn down. Friendships are formed quickly with her fellow, Irish employees, and Hailey lives thirteen miles "up the road" in the wind-swept, seaside area of Connemara, a land steeped in traditional music, where Irish is the first language. When Hailey meets a famous local musician named Liam Hennessey, a confusing relationship begins, which Hailey thinks may be the result of differing cultures, for Liam is married to the music, and although curious about Hailey, won't come closer nor completely go away. And so begins the push and pull of a relationship Hailey struggles to decipher as a stranger in a strange, and Hailey comes to love a land and its people with more heart and soul than she ever imagined, during a year that becomes the most pivotal of her life.
Dancing to an Irish Reel Claire Fullerton 9780990304258 Books
I just finished DANCING TO AN IRISH REEL and feel like I've been on a mini-vacation to Ireland. The descriptions of Galway and surrounding area are fantastic and the location is a major part of the plot. I've spent time in this area of Ireland and the author's descriptions of the land (and the people) is spot-on.Hailey worked in the music business in LA and when she wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her life, she took a vacation in Ireland. She ended up being offered a job at the Galway Music Center that was set up to publicize local traditional musicians and she decided to take the job and stay in Ireland. As she struggles to learn more about the Irish culture and people, she makes some good friends - both through her job and in her community who help her better understand the people. She is instantly drawn to a musician, Liam, but their romance is rocky to say the least. He is totally immersed in his music and doesn't seem to know how to have a relationship. She begins to think that the problems in their relationship are due to the cultures that they grew up in. It's a beautiful story of the uncertainty of new romance.
This is a beautiful written story of Hailey's romances -- with Liam, with the Irish people she comes in contact with and especially with Ireland and the beauty of the land. I highly recommend this book!
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Dancing to an Irish Reel Claire Fullerton 9780990304258 Books Reviews
This is a beautiful prose of a tale. The ending didn’t blow me away though it just left it at that. As if you can see what will become based on earlier situations. This is but isn’t romance. It’s romance in the sense that two people fall in love and struggle with falling for one another. Their struggle isn’t external but internal particularly for Liam who is scared witless by this.
Liam is a great guy but lives in the past and doesn’t always stay in the moment. He continuously examines the past to see how it relates to the here and now and how it can help change what is being done today. Until Hailey this worked. Than Hailey came and his world changed. And his world confused him. Love was something he never felt for a woman before and he was lost as to what to do. Miscommunication on both parties left both of them reeling and Liam more than Hailey. Hailey had her friends to go to whereas Liam had no one he felt could help him with his internal struggle. So he waffled in and out of Hailey’s life. In the end he does talk to her but that is where we are left just wondering. It just ends. Leaving you to have your mind figure out where they went from there that and the psychic words that Hailey saw.
The story really is about Hailey’s journey into self discovery and figuring out the Irish culture. It is poetic in how it’s written and does capture you with the prose and how things are done. Hailey comes to Ireland on sabbatical and just doesn’t go home. She begins to love the area and gets a job. A job that has a boss Declan who needs to do his own self discovery. A flighty man that is. Also selfish for he opens a music center and when it isn’t all about him anymore he becomes disinterested.
Each character is well defined and enhances to the story and helps add perspective to Hailey’s journey and her time in Ireland. This is what the story is about a poetic prose of Hailey’s time in Ireland and her journey to self discovery and a little romance. It’s well written, informative and inquisitive for the mind as well. The characters are well developed and keep you in the story. Her and to an extent Liam’s journey is interesting and one’s you want to see to the end. It really is a beautifully written story that shouldn’t be missed.
I pulled out this book on a rainy afternoon at the beach. Even as the sun began to peek out, I found myself bound to my chair on the porch, transported to the Irish countryside. The first person narrative of Hailey's connection with the geography and culture of Ireland carried me across the ocean and immersed me in the magical surroundings. Claire Fullerton's lyrical prose sculpted a window in time for this young American woman that could only have been captured by living there herself. The modern day love story in this old world setting held me captive, and my journey was finished by dusk. My day was well spent.
While reading Dancing to an Irish Reel, I felt as if I had joined a dance myself, part of a song beyond the ordinary world I’d left behind. The setting, Connemara on the West Coast of Ireland, lives on every page—the coastal pathways, a midnight pier, a hillside graveyard.
Readers meet one of the main characters, Liam, early, but just like Hailey, the central character, keep wondering when we’ll see him again. Intrigued, I kept reading as a relationship developed. Although a few readers might prefer a more traditionally masculine Liam, not many would object to an Irish version of Heathcliff, who reads poetry and plays traditional music in darkened pubs.
At the same time, Hailey, an American with experience in the record business, takes on a role to build up a music center, fostering the careers of Irish musicians. This plot brings in fully realized supporting characters and rounds out the action. At first, I wished Liam had been more involved in the music center, but I’ve realized his absence let Hailey shine as the independent protagonist she truly is. There isn’t any feeling of a woman needing rescuing about her, and that fact is refreshing.
Within a novel that creates a full story for each character, Hailey, and readers, also learn about another culture—the linguistic differences of English spoken in Ireland, the names common there, the sights and pubs of Galway, and rural traditions. I traveled via the written word, a gift given from such a well-thought-out work of literary fiction.
I just finished DANCING TO AN IRISH REEL and feel like I've been on a mini-vacation to Ireland. The descriptions of Galway and surrounding area are fantastic and the location is a major part of the plot. I've spent time in this area of Ireland and the author's descriptions of the land (and the people) is spot-on.
Hailey worked in the music business in LA and when she wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her life, she took a vacation in Ireland. She ended up being offered a job at the Galway Music Center that was set up to publicize local traditional musicians and she decided to take the job and stay in Ireland. As she struggles to learn more about the Irish culture and people, she makes some good friends - both through her job and in her community who help her better understand the people. She is instantly drawn to a musician, Liam, but their romance is rocky to say the least. He is totally immersed in his music and doesn't seem to know how to have a relationship. She begins to think that the problems in their relationship are due to the cultures that they grew up in. It's a beautiful story of the uncertainty of new romance.
This is a beautiful written story of Hailey's romances -- with Liam, with the Irish people she comes in contact with and especially with Ireland and the beauty of the land. I highly recommend this book!
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