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Famine (O'Flaherty novel)

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353: 269: 85:, James Cahalan wrote: The novel is interspersed with sardonic socialist polemics, and contains an extreme representation of the landlord’s agent, Chadwick, who seduces and ruins Ellie Gleeson and exclaims against the peasants, "I’m going to root them out like a nest of rats." 124:- In his early 50s at the novel's start, he is the brother-in-law of Brian Kilmartin. At the age of eight, on his parents' deaths he had surrendered his land to Brian Kilmartin, his sister Maggie's husband. He has lived with the Kilmartins since then. 118:- Aged 19 at the novel's start, she is the wife of Martin. A beautiful woman with shining, black hair, she is the daughter of a weaver named Barney Gleeson. It is mentioned in the book that the women at that time kept their maiden name after marriage. 19: 78:
said of one of the novel's characters: "Mary Kilmartin (the heroine) has been singled out by two generations of critics as one of the great creations of modern literature. And so she is."
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of the 1840s, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Kilmartin family. The novel is critical of the constitutional politics of
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O'Flaherty dedicated the book to John Ford, in thanks and honor of his 1935 film adaptation of O'Flaherty's novel,
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Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel
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The Literary Guild
Irish
Liam O'Flaherty
Ireland
Black Valley
County Kerry
Great Famine
Daniel O'Connell
John Broderick
The Informer
Unofficial Liam O'Flaherty Homepage
John Broderick, Irish Times, 19 January, 1980.
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Liam O'Flaherty
Novels
Thy Neighbour's Wife
The Informer
Return of the Brute
Famine
Insurrection

The Sniper
The Informer
The Informer
The Puritan
Uptight

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