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This 1903 volume focuses on Irish novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century, more specifically, the extent to which their novels represent Irish national life and character. The book is divided into five chapters: "Irish Society," "The Novelists of the Gentry," "The Novelists of the Peasantry," "Types and Typical Incidents," and "Literary Estimate."
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With characteristic lawlessness and connection to the common man, the figure of the rogue commanded the world of Irish fiction from 1660 to 1790. During this period of development for the Irish novel, this archetypal figure appears over and over again. Early Irish fiction combined the picaresque genre, focusing on a cunning, witty trickster or pícaro, with the escapades of real and notorious criminals. On the one hand, such rogue tales exemplified...
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While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In “Broken Irelands”, McGlynn examines Irish fiction of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation of writing that downplays realistic and grammatical coherence. Noting that these traits have the effect of diminishing human agency,...
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The sound of corks popping and distant cheers of 'Happy New Year!' wake me. I crack my eyes open and take a slow, surprisingly painful breath. My sister's face comes into focus, and I see the tears staining her cheeks. Where am I?
One minute, pastry chef Tabitha Greenwood is driving through rain-soaked Dublin with her fiancé Mark, on their way to a New Year's Eve party. The next, she is waking up in the hospital, the devastated face of her sister...
5) As You Were
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Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But, she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed,...
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