Donegal Annual / Bliainiris Thír Chonaill, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1947)

Donegal in fiction TITLE QF NOVEL The Duchess P1J'B'LISHER Ne:t:Jon (1907), w. 302 AUTHOR fraac• B. Althur Scene: Mainly in Donegal. Standpoint: Protestant and PJngllsh. Not unfair to peiasantry. A pleasantliy tord lititfo story. The hero inlplieat:ed in Fertlan movement, and aTrested, escajpes from prison through the cleverness of his little daughter, ·~e Duchess." The Glen of Silver Birches !Remington, 2 Vols. < 1880) Ha.riper, N.Y. (1881). E. Owens Blackbume Nuala O'Donnell's e:iOtrwvaga.nlt father hias mortgiaged his estate in the Donegial Highlands, near Glenvich ('I1he Glen o;. Silver BUches). A scheming Attorney tries ·to get the family into his toi:ls and to marry' Nuala. The scheme is defeated, and N. marries Thorourn, an English landlord, who has boU:&'ht the neighlbour,ing estaite. some good chara.cters, e.g., kindly ol'cl Aunt Nancy and N.'s Nationalist poet cousin, U.e Ship That Sailed Too Soon Maunsel (1919). Halt l1nvader Browne and Nolan (1940) M. Bodkin A ~tory of an inv.agion of Ireliand wb,i-ch can be highly recommended for boy:s. The scene is Horn Head, near Dunfanaghy, of which the author appears to have an illltimaite knowledge. A well-WTiVten and lively tale of adventure. Shandy Maguire, or Tricks Upon Travellers Richardson (1855). Praitlt, N.Y. (1848). Wlarren, Kilmainham, n.d. Rev. John Boyce, D.D. First appeared in a Boston periodical, with the pen•name of ''Paul Peppergrass." It a'1:itracted at once the attention o.t Bi~hop Fenwich . Qf :SO&lt<>n. Dr. Brownson, in his '1Quarterly Revieiw," pronounced uPC>n the book the _hig'h,e~ eulogium, and assigned to the writer a place equal, 1'f not sutrerior, to any Wl'fta' of Irish romance. Shandy Maguire WiaS reoognlsed by tlle Lontton cf'ress '6ild the Dulblin Review as a work of great merit. It has qeen successfully dramiaitised and translated into Qerman. Mary Lee, or The Yankee 'PP· 391. Pratt, N.Y., In Ireland Baltimore; Kelly & Piet. Frontis. lby J'. Harley ('1864). Rev. John Boyce, D.b. The last SitoTy written by this author, for wnom see our J:3(:>ok Reviews Note. l't is considered to display an intimate knowledge of Irish Ohar:ac,ter, and to contain an exeellent description of the ~ypic.al Yiankee. The Scene ta Donegial. Time, 185-. The Story ·of Parson Annaly ,PP. 429 Drought, (1370) Richard Sinclair Brooke, D.D. A lon:g, rather involved story, in pat'lt rea>rinted from Dlllblin University Magazine. I;t contains some excellent descriptions of Donegal scenery, Glenve,agh and Barnesmore.

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