Her Fated Place

<p><em>Her Fated Place</em> is a poem in four chapters telling the story of a young woman from the West of Ireland who makes her way from domestic service on an Irish landed estate to the sophistication of post-World War II Rome and its expatriate community via the London Blitz. Along the way she is exposed to the prevailing debates of the times on religious sectarianism and piety fascism communism and tyranny post-war guilt and triumphalism all the while keeping her own counsel and coming to a surprising but not unexpected conclusion of her own in the end. </p>