Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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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 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | On the first morning of action, James Connolly
announced the formation of the Irish Republican Army
; in it, CCM
served as Staff Lieutenant. She first delivered medical supplies to the City Hall station with... |
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 | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Despard | |
Cultural formation | Anne Devlin | AD
grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23. 111 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Devlin | Patrick Joseph (Paddy) Devlin
was a socialist politician. At the age of eleven he joined the IRA
, and he was sent to prison for three years in his youth. While serving time he came... |
Characters | Anne Devlin | A woman named Finn, under interrogation for assisting the IRA
, recalls a traumatic event from her past: the political turmoil of 1969 which took her grandmother's life. The recovered memory raises questions about Finn's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Devlin | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maud Gonne | Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth... |
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 |
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 | Seamus Heaney | SH
dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944... |
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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