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Hibernia
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A facsimile reprint in the Hibernia series chosen and introduced by John Kelly ISBN 1 85477 221 x 245 x 175 mm This is a long 3-volume novel, of nearly a thousand pages, published originally in coventional format. To keep the selling price within bounds we have used a large page size, each page containing four pages of the original with the type size slightly reduced. |
JOHN BANIM The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century John Banim (1789-1842) and his brother Michael Banim (1786-1876) collaborated on a number of novels, many of which were published under the general title 'Tales of the O'Hara Family'. Michael Banim explained that they were trying to 'insinuate, through fiction, the causes of Irish discontent ... the conclusion to be arrived at by the reader, not by insisting on it on the part of the Author, but from sympathy with the criminals.' The Anglo-lrish of the Nineteenth Century traces the adventures of the initially prejudiced Gerald Blount, the younger son of an Irish peer, who mixes in Anglo-Irish political and literary circles in London, before a duel forces him to flee to the Ireland of secret agrarian societies, Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association, and political uncertainty. £45 $75 ‘What! neither Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Scotch, nor yet English-quite, nor Irish-quite? Have you a country at all, Sir?’ |
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