Dooneen

Bartholomew Port, known as Mew, steps into the bushes of a London park—and emerges in Dublin. But this is not the Dublin he knows. There are no cars, moving footpaths have replaced ordinary streets, there is no church, and everything feels strangely out of time.

Arriving under mysterious circumstances, Mew finds himself in a city alive with music, rumors, hidden tunnels, ghosts, and the unmistakable energy of rebellion. As he tries to make sense of this uncanny place, he is haunted by thoughts of Mootie, the beloved woman he left behind in London.

Part mystery, part dream, and part revolutionary fable, Dooneen unfolds through a shifting chorus of voices and perspectives. Keith Ridgway creates a strange, immersive world where time, memory, and reality begin to blur, drawing Mew deeper into an impossible journey he cannot fully understand.

Layered, atmospheric, and wildly inventive, Dooneen is an enigmatic novel about love, displacement, rebellion, and the fragile boundaries between the world we know and the worlds we imagine.