An eminently poetic book, langrishe, go down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, i...An eminently poetic book, langrishe, go down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book.