A suspenseful thriller that alternates between the story of a potential victim and that of her potential predator, Felicia’s Journey follows the title character from her bleak young life in Ireland to an unknown future in England. She is pursuing… Read More ›
This trilogy was published in a single volume with added material (Epilogue) in 1986; it originally appeared as the separate volumes The Country Girls (1960), which was the author’s first published novel; The Lonely Girl (1962); and Girls in Their… Read More ›
Written as the first-person narration of a Dublin student who relishes multiple approaches to the representation of reality, this antirealistic novel presents a narrator living with an insufferably conventional uncle. The young man has reason to resent his uncle’s inquisitiveness:… Read More ›
As indicated by its subtitle, Hurrish: A Study was intended by Emily Lawless to reflect as much about Ireland’s general masses as about any one person. Thus, her characters serve as basic types or symbols. They scratch out a living… Read More ›
Samuel Lover was best known as a miniaturist painter and a dramatist, often performing his own written sketches and stories. Handy Andy remains his best-known novel, probably his only work to have remained palatable to later audiences. Lover writes ironically… Read More ›
Emily Lawless’s fourth novel, Grania: The Story of an Island, published in two volumes, was eagerly awaited by her readership. Like her third novel, Hurrish (1886), Grania focused on a poor Irish family and was intent on leading its readers… Read More ›
Marmion Savage’s first novel, The Falcon Family; or, Young Ireland, satirized parasitic socialites, traditionalists within the Church of England, and the Young Ireland Party, a group of extremists who campaigned for Ireland’s independence. Published anonymously, the novel proved popular, although… Read More ›
George Moore’s melodramatic romance novel Evelyn Innes is replete with characters based on real people. The author fashioned Evelyn’s father after the French-born musician Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), who studied Renaissance music and the instruments that produced it in London. A… Read More ›
Irish literature falls into two distinct categories. Written in the Irish language, the first category includes bardic poems and Celtic sagas. The second category, Irish literature written in English, includes what is often called Anglo-Irish literature because it was created… Read More ›
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