In Silent Moments

Quite Moments is a delightful and moving collection of short reflections, some lyrical, some nostalgic, by one of Ireland’s favourite anthologists, also a well-known broadcasting voice. Varying in theme from a Roman holiday to a death in the family, from clearing attics to memories of pupils past, they invite the reader to pause and reflect, to accompany the author on a journey into memory and emotion. In a busy world quiet moments are more necessary than ever before. Thomas Walsh writes with reverence of the boy who gathered mayfly from the hawthorn that surrounded the ‘lake which lapped softly by the fields of the small farm where he was reared’, and remembered that lake when he was exiled to the building sites and pubs of London - just one of the tender, moving anecdotes that give life to this collection.