Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
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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... |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edith Somerville | ES
produced this book under very difficult conditions: unrestrained conflict between Irish Republican
forces and the dreaded Black and Tans
. All the bridges had been broken around Skibbereen (the nearest town to her house,... |
Other Life Event | Jean Plaidy | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dervla Murphy | DM
's paternal grandparents lived in a happy-go-lucky poverty, without any self-pity, in a house full of books. Her grandfather Murphy, or Pappa, had permanently damaged his health by going on hunger-strike in order... |
politics | Dervla Murphy | In March 1944 DM
's family gave sanctuary for a fortnight to Pat, otherwise known as Charles Kerins
, a young IRA
man who had shot a detective-sergeant in Dublin. He had been passed... |
Travel | Dervla Murphy | |
Residence | Betty Miller | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Betty Miller | BM
's father, Simon Spiro
, a Lithuanian by birth, had emigrated with his family to Ireland well before the end of the nineteenth century. In Cork he became a prosperous, large-scale shop-keeper (selling cigars... |
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... |
Characters | Jennifer Johnston | The action takes place in flashback, from the viewpoint of an old woman, Miranda Martin, dying after a life whose promise was snuffed out by violence during the Irish Civil War. She speaks in the... |
Textual Production | Seamus Heaney | |
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... |
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