The Venue: Greene’s Restaurant, MacCurtain Street, Cork
Modern, innovative, international cuisine using local fresh produce, specialising in seafood dishes but catering for vegetarians and carnivores too. Our menu reflects the seasonal changes and uses the best of what the local Cork producers offer.
The Book: Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
What do you do when your wife takes your child and leaves you alone in a city of ghosts? Hans van den Broek chooses cricket. Alone in a terrorized city, struggling to understand the disappearance from his life of people, places and feelings, he seeks refuge in the game of his childhood. But New York cricket is a long way from the tranquil sport he grew up with. It’s a rough, almost secret game, played in scrubby, marginal urban parks, by people the city doesn’t see – people like Chuck Ramkissoon.
Years later, when a body is pulled out of a New York canal, hands tied behind its back, Hans is forced to remember his unusual friendship with Chuck – dreamer, visionary, and perhaps something darker…