Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-loreBrown, Stephen J. M. (Stephen James Meredith)
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Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore
Brown, Stephen J. M. (Stephen James Meredith)
English fiction -- Irish authors -- Bibliography; Ireland -- In literature -- Bibliography
⸺ THE HEIRESS OF CARRIGMONA. Pp. 381. (BOSTON: _Murphy_). Third thousand.
(_Washbourne_). 4_s._ 1910.
Scene: Co. Wicklow and Western U.S.A. Chiefly concerned
with the fortunes of an Irish peasant family named Travers,
especially the son, who goes to America, gets into trouble,
is rescued, and then⸺. A strong warning against emigration
is conveyed in this latter part of the story. Mrs. Dorsey’s
peasants here, as usual, are lifelike and interesting. Their
best qualities—trust in Providence, resignation under trial,
piety, self-sacrifice—are well brought out. The brogue is not
overdone. Anti-Irish characters are represented as mean and
hypocritical.
⸺ MONA THE VESTAL. Pp. 163-324. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association
Publishing Co._). _n.d._
Bound in same vol. as “Norah Brady’s Vow” and under latter
title. An endeavour to place the heroic virtues of new
Christians in contrast with the decaying Druidic paganism. The
writer claims the Abbé McGeoghegan’s authority (also that of
Mooney and Carey) for her descriptions of the Ireland of the
time. But, with the exception of the incident of Patrick’s
arrival at Tara, the story and its setting are purely imaginary
and ideal. The Druids worship in vast temples with long
corridors and fine carvings. Tara is a great city of marble
palaces.
⸺ NORA BRADY’S VOW. Pp. 160. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association
Publishing Co._). 0.50. _n.d._
Nora is only a servant girl, but is, without suspecting it,
a true heroine. But she is no saint, and has a sharp tongue
in her head. Her witty sallies are cleverly reproduced. The
author tells us that Nora was a “real and living person.” John
Halloran takes part in the rising of ’48, and is obliged to
fly to America. Nora vows not to settle down in life until the
fortunes of the Hallorans are restored. She goes to America,
works to support the family, which has been ruined by an
informer, and at length finds Halloran and reunites the family
once more. Scene: near Holy Cross Abbey on the Suir; afterwards
Boston. On the whole the tone and style are very emotional, but
with an emotion that rings true. This is relieved by not a few
gleams of pleasant humour. Irish dialect well done. Sympathy
strongly national.
⸺ THE OLD HOUSE AT GLENARAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.80. In print.
(_Washbourne_). 4_s._
=DOTTIN, Henry Georges.= Born 1863 in France. Prof. of Greek Lit. (1905)
at the University of Rennes. Has contributed to learned reviews and has
published several learned works, _La religion des Celtes_, 1903; _La
Bretagne et le Culte du passé_, 1903.
⸺ CONTES IRLANDAIS TRADUITS DU GAËLIQUE. Pp. 274. (_Rennes_). 1901.
Tales, thirty-five in number, collected in Connaught and
republished from the “Annales de Bretagne,” tome x.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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