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Any Chance of a Start? is the debut novel by Annaghdown based writer Michael Caulfield. The three eldest Folan brothers - Christy, Iggy and Mikey - leave the family farm in Mayo to work on building sites in London in the late 1970s.
Like so many Irish emigrants before them, they work hard and do well, especially Christy who is “the entrepreneur” of the trio. Back home, something called ‘the Celtic Tiger’ is born.
The three brothers return home, or at least to Dublin. Their youngest brother, Tommy, who narrates the story, joins them in the capital. They get involved in something called “property development”, which, as we know, can only ever turn out well.
For a long time things do go well: “Because of its location and proximity to the docks, the property in Harcourt Street was sold to an American company, for six times what we had paid for it. They intended to build a large computer factory, a hotel, several blocks of offices and a state of the art shopping centre.”
What could possibly go wrong?
195 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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