Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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Travel | Dervla Murphy | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | She barely mentions her husband or her extreme feelings of loss she felt at his death. She spends more time discussing her children in this volume than in any before: she writes of her sons... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Betty Miller | Her daughter quotes from the radio play a passage about a child listening at night to the noises made by an IRA
crowd in the street: the singing and cheering . . . . an... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Devlin | |
Textual Production | Seamus Heaney | |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | It appeared in the Gollancz Detection series. Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz. cover Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz. cover |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | In these lectures SH
again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at... |
Textual Features | Catherine Byron | Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney
's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes |
Textual Features | Lettice Cooper | This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC
had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian... |
Residence | Betty Miller | |
Reception | Edna O'Brien | The production and reception of this text was heavily influenced by the political climate of the time. EOB
's preparations for writing it included interviewing Dominic McGlinchey
, the imprisoned former leader of the INLA... |
Publishing | Maud Gonne | MG
occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly
, with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also... |
politics | Maud Gonne | In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG
was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard
for the Irish White Cross |
politics | Katharine Tynan | KT
greeted with optimism the truce that ended fighting between the Irish Republican Army
and British troops in Ireland. Never was so happy a country, Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 386 Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 386 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Michael Collins |
politics | Katharine Tynan | This truce was a step towards the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 (ratified by the Dail
on 7 January 1922), which made southern Ireland a Free State or Dominion with a... |
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