Today's Rain, Tomorrow's Whiskey

After 700 years of failed Irish uprisings, Today's Rain, Tomorrow's Whiskey marks the twilight of British rule in Ireland. It was hastened, in part, by a man born in the southeast corner of the island: Michael Collins. A party to the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Collins survived to become Minister of Finance for the fledgling Dáil Éireann, the renegade and revolutionary parliament in Ireland. And, as Director of Intelligence for the nascent Irish Republican Army, he built a formidable network of spies and assassins that ultimately crippled the political operation of British control in Ireland. In fact, in the wake of ongoing retribution and retaliation, Michael Collins became the most hunted man in the British Empire. Today's Rain, Tomorrow's Whiskey is Michael Collins's story, the story of the fight for an Ireland free.

Fowler is a born storyteller, and she carries us through the historical drama with riveting accounts of espionage and passion, while painting an intimate and complex portrait of Collins, his coteri, and his native West Cork. A great read!

- Philip Brady,

author of To Banquet with the Ethiopíans

A storyteller at heart, Jaclyn Maria Fowler comes from a long line of storytellers and wanderers. She, too, travels to write and writes to travel. To pay for her obsession, she works as the Chair of the English Department at American Public University System. She is the author of Jack The Almost True Story of the Molly Maguires and It is Myself that I Remake. Fowler is a graduate of the MFA program at Wilkes University.