Tags: Novel.
Published in 2005 Fontenoy is the third novel by the Irish novelist Liam Mac Cóil and a winner of the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin award in 2006.The novel centres on a box of printers’ proofs in a Gaelic font recently found by the author in an archive in the French city of Chartres. The pages contain an account of the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) during the Austrian War of Succession written by a fictional Irish captain of the Irish Brigade known as the Wild Geese.