Anne Enright’s novel ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is wondrous. The Irish writer’s latest is a powerful exploration of family bonds in the wake of a father’s abandonment. September 15, 2023.

The "hunting the wren" tradition has, to a large degree, disappeared, but the tradition of visiting from house to house on St. Stephen's Day has survived in Ireland.

Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of ...

An acclaimed Irish poet deserts his sick wife and two young daughters. Anne Enright's new novel centers on the way that betrayal reverberates throughout the next generations.

Yet you may feel that you know him anyway, so convincingly has Ms. Enright conjured the archetype of the wandering Irish bard who leaves behind him a legacy of abandoned women and melodious, honey ...

Inexplicably overlooked by the Booker Prize panel for the longlist, The Wren, The Wren shows that her achievements continue apace: it may be her best book yet. Not only a triumph but a joy. Mia ...

Still celebrated in parts of Ireland and in the diaspora, Wren’s day involves a parade where hunters sing at homes after catching a wren Wren’s day: an old Irish tradition that survives today Home ...

Lá an Dreolín, or Wren Day, in Dingle, and the rain held off for a celebration like no other, alive with colour and music and madcap humour in the darkest month of the year. Once a vibrant rural ...

At first glance, it seems impossible to capture generational trauma in a single novel. “The Wren, The Wren” by Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright is a tour-de-force that proves otherwise ...

In “The Wren, the Wren,” which is much more fun than its themes might make it sound, three generations of a contemporary Irish family cope in their own ways with the consequences of that ...

Ancient Irish tradition of hunting the wren coming to the US this St. Stephen's Day Comhaltas Ceolóirí Éireann will have more than 40 regional branches participating in the ancient tradition ...

The wren tradition or“hunting the wren” is an old midwinter custom that was once commonplace throughout Ireland, the UK and diaspora communities, but it died out in most areas throughout the ...