The Gems She Wore: A Book of Irish places

Biographies & Memoirs

Plunkett, James

Community & Culture

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Trusting and the Maimed

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Arrow Bks.

<p>Novel of life and hard times in Dublin during the angry years leading up to the First World War.</p>

Strumpet City: A Reissue

Contemporary

Hutchinson

The gems she wore: A book of Irish places

Travel

James Plunkett's long-awaited second novel is, like his widely acclaimed Strwnpet City, a rich and intricate tapestry of Irish life, this time of the period from the 1914 war to the ending of World : War II. Like many other great novels it Is basically about growing up. We watch Tim McDonagh : and his two close friends moving through childhood and adolescence to early manhood, adapting each in his own-way to the varied and complex strands of the Irish heritage. A powerful influence, of course, is the Church, But there is. also the strong blood-myth of race and an equally pervasive nostalgia for a lost, golden age of the Gael, that mysterious groping back to a crowded, mythological world of gods, warriors and hero-poets. There are, too, , the passionate antagonisms of the Civil War .which had so. recently marked the setting-up of the new State and turned the triumph of the uprising to dust and ashes. Rich and highly articulate characters personify . these influences - O'Sheehan, the eccentric old librarian and Celtic scholar who believes he is Oisin, - son of Finn, MacCumhaill and hero-poet of Gaelic mythology and so about 2,000 years old Cornelius Moloney publican-politician, who hopes to make his fortune by training, greyhounds; and petty politicians and feuding Treatyites and Anti-Treatyites who were at one time brothers-in-arms.

Farewell companions

The Circus Animals

Hutchinson (an Imprint of Random Century Group Ltd.)

Gems She Wore Book of Irish Places

History

Europe

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of characters: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the hard-working, loyal and abused trade unionist; the isolated, well-meaning and ineffectual Fr O'Connor; the wretched and destitute Rashers Tierney. In the background hovers the enormous shadow of Jim Larkin, Plunkett's real-life hero. Strumpet City's popularity derives from its realism and its naturalistic presentation of traumatic historical events. There are clear heroes and villains. The book is informed by a sense of moral outrage at the treatment of the locked-out trade unionists, the indifference and evasion of the city's clergy and middle class and the squalor and degradation of the tenement slums.

Strumpet City-Pb

Genre Fiction

The Gems She Wore: A Book of Irish Places

Telecourse Guide Business of Management (SWC-Management Ser.): 2nd Edition

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Thomson Learning Publishing

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