The Meat Eaters Henry Firth Even as he plucks up

Even as he plucks up the courage to ask for Rose's hand

and face a fearful monster at Water-Step Hill

What they leave behind is sickness

investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park

Together with comrade '352' Jenkins

The Meat Eaters Henry Firth Even as he plucks upMichael Collins's stories are about Ireland, about the Irish as they are and as they would like to be imagined. In the title story we see the fatal consequences of self deception. Posing as a nationalist hero, a young man travels to America with a suitcase full of meat. The warm welcome he expects swiftly dematerialises as he awakes to the grim realities of life in hiding. The vivid, surreal splendour of the writing allied with images of real people