Ellen McWilliams reflects on her Catholic upbringing in West Cork in the 1980s and 1990s, and on relations with her Protestant neighbours. She is haunted by the killings in the period of Ireland’s War of Independence and Civil War, and in particular by the ‘Dunmanway massacre’ of April 1922 which marked the area where she grew up. Her great grandmother was active in Cumann na mBan and her granduncle fought for independence as well as in the anti-Treaty IRA. The book reveals why the events of those days remain deeply personal and how they shape her adult life as she moves to England, marries an expert on Cromwell and the English Civil War, teaches Irish literature at an English university, experiences pregnancy and childbirth, and nurtures her son in his early years. 234 x 156mm, xxvi + 198 pages + 16 pages of photographs Praise for Resting Places This is a work of eloquent, haunting beauty, a song of mourning and revelation that deserves the widest possible audience. This is a story rooted in a place and time, but it is truly the story of all wars in all times. Fergal Keane A powerful, moving book about the heaviness of history and a reckoning with what reconciliation can mean in the present. To read it is to walk with ghosts, to time-travel, to sit with the grandchild of the Irish Civil War as she navigates intergenerational trauma. A story told with deep love, empathy and a desire for healing. I am not the same after reading it. Claire Mitchell, author of The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798.