Topographia Hibernica by Blindboy Boatclub review – craic of doom | Short stories
In his third short-story collection, Blindboy Boatclub – one half of Ireland’s self-styled “dole-queue dadaists”, the comedy hip-hop duo the Rubberbandits – blends the ordinary and the bizarre, the hilarious and the desperate. The tone is set in the first story, The Donkey: “There’s a donkey selling Christmas trees off the roundabout. Looking like a prick in the frost with a green elf’s hat on its head.” The beast is weeping blood from the cruel abuse it is suffering at the hands of a child, and in a nearby nursing home…