Set in Ireland in the 1950s. A young woman, Eilis, can't find work and her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York. I'm only about a third in but really enjoying it. So far she's living in a boarding house in Brooklyn with other young women, working in a department store and missing her home and family.
Any help from Irish MWOers about how to pronounce Eilis? It doesn't have any accents on in the book so I'm told it would be Eye-leesh but if it had a fada somewhere (?) it would be Aye-leesh. I'd like to know the sound of the word when I'm reading it!
Any help from Irish MWOers about how to pronounce Eilis? It doesn't have any accents on in the book so I'm told it would be Eye-leesh but if it had a fada somewhere (?) it would be Aye-leesh. I'd like to know the sound of the word when I'm reading it!