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Slow Down, Pilgrim!: Tales of the Living and the Dead
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.99
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Where the border splits the town, the living and the dead still share the road.
In Killyknock, a small village straddling the Irish border between Lough Derg and Lough Erne, barefoot children paddle in streams, altar boys witness the petty tyrannies of parish priests, and neighbors test the boundaries of law, nature, and each other. These are the vivid, bog-scented memories of a world now largely vanished, a rural Ireland shaped by poverty, pilgrimage, partition, and the quiet resilience of people who endured it all with wit and grit.
In Slow Down, Pilgrim!, Barnard Ardglass gathers tales that move from the warmth of childhood mischief to something stranger and darker. Part 1 immerses us in a community transformed by political upheaval and religious authority, where a guard's son can shame a family at the stream, where a priest's demand for donations carries the weight of a bishop's crozier, and where Protestant mill owners and Catholic neighbors share a decency that transcends the sectarian divide. Part 2 crosses a different border entirely. Here, hauntings emerge from local lore and personal encounter. Ghosts fill the air above Killyknock, and the line between the living and the dead grows as thin as the border that once split the town in two.
Reflective, mysterious, and laced with supernatural dread, these stories ask a question that lingers long after the final page: when the grasses stop bowing and the stillness settles in, what remains of us on either side of the grave?
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