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... |
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 |
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