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The Singing Cave (Dillon novel)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

LC Class
  
PZ7.D579

Genre
  
Young adult fiction

Dewey decimal
  
823.914


Set in
  
Connemara

Pages
  
186 pp

Originally published
  
1959

Country
  
United Kingdom

OCLC
  
43187026

Authors
  
Ellis Dillon, Eilís Dillon

Similar
  
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The Singing Cave is a 1959 young adult novel by Irish writer Eilís Dillon, first published by Faber & Faber in the UK. It was published the following year in the US by Funk & Wagnalls, illustrated by Stan Campbell.

Contents

Plot

Pat, a boy who lives on the west coast of Ireland at Connemara, explores a niche in a cliff that is known locally as "the singing cave". One day, Pat finds the tomb of a Viking warrior in an inner chamber. When he returns the next day the relics have disappeared, but Pat has told nobody about it but his grandfather and Mr Allen, an amateur archaeologist. Pat and his friend Tom Joyce seek to solve the mystery.

Reception

Declan Kiberd wrote, "What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children's literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave.

References

The Singing Cave (Dillon novel) Wikipedia