. JOURNAL .OF THE co'UNTY ooNE:aA!. HIST6RICAL SoCJETY. 79 The ·Flight of the Eagle pp. 298. Sealy, Bryers (1908). Standish O'Grady The historical episode of the pdnap,ping of. Hugh Roe O"Donnell and his escaipe from Dublin Castle evoked in a . narmtive of extraordin:airy dra~tc power and vividness. TI:ie author bias breatlJ,ed a s1pirit into the dry bones of innumerable contem1PQrary docl,lments and State Papeirs, ·'So t7hat the men of EUzaibethian Ireland S!rem to live and move before us. The etfect is greatly streng1thened 1by the vigour and rush of the style, wMch ·reminds one of that O•f oarlyle in his French Revolution. The author has peculiair and dedded views a1bout E:1izalbe1:1han Irish politics. "The authorities for the story," he tells us in his preface, "are the Annals of ithe Four Masters, the Historia Hi\berni'ae of Dnn Phil~p O'Su.Uiva_n BeaTe, .O'Clery's life of Hugh Roe, and the Calend>ar Cl'f State pa[pers, Ireland, from 1587 onward." Branan the·· Pict pp. 356. (IR.T.S. 1913). Mary Franees Outram "An exceedingly well writiten tale of the times of St. Columlba, ·based on the "Life" by A:damnan). The hero and his as:sociates are fictitious, but the setting of the sitory is worked out wttlh remarkable skill." The Last of the Irish Chiefs p.p. 279. Lester, c. (1923) Mrs. M. T. Pender A semational iromanice of the time of Sir Cahir O'IDbherty's Rising, and the governorship of Pa.uletrt of Derry, around 1608. (This book first a,ppeared in seria:I form.). S.cene: Innishowen and Derry Oi·ty. Tracked Ireland'..s Own Ubrary Victor O'Dooovan Power (1914). A wholesome and pleasant story of unrequited love and jealousy. Scene: Innishorwen (Oo. Donegal). A 'Well-wO'lked-out ;plot, with good desol'J.ptions of scenery. Peasants deip•icted with sYm1Pa1thy and understanding. The VaHey of Wild Swans Talbot Press 0938). J. H. Potlock ("An Phitibin") A part of this very readable romance would a.pperar to de.al witih the Dunf.a.naghy district. The local dialect is very well rendered. PP: 420. Nelson (1906). Talbot Baines Reid Scene: Miainly in Donegal. Relates adventures of Donegal ftsher~boy, ftirst at home, then in Paris, during the Reign of Terror, then at battle of 'OamperdoiW'ri, then in Duiblin, where he · freqttents meetings of United Irishmen and meets L;o.rd EdlWlard. Sttian<iipoint: not anti-!trish, but hositile of aims of United Irishmen. Flull of exciting adventure. The Nun's Curse Ward & Downey (1887 -1890) Mrs. Riddell Considered by a com1P.etent critic to be her best Irish novel. Scene: Co. Donegal, near Durrtanaghy, c. 1850. The wor'king out of an inherited curse. Te•rence Coniwtay tries to take it · olf by being a model lam:Uord. !He ha•s an intrigue with a peasant g~rl and is forced lby his fin:ancee to marry the gi.rl. The 1a.tter pines and dies. Her son i.:S kidnapped and afterwards returns as priest of the parish. Terence marries again, a father, and prospeiroU.i, still feels the ~urse. Tbe aut.hor knows the Ulster pea.sanit, and so the de·scriptions and the diaiogue are well done, with a weU-iPainited background of Donegal scene-ry. The Daughter of Tyrconnell Duffy, !Dulblin. Kennedy, N.Y. Mrs. James Sadlier
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