John
William Carleton: |Bonfire raiding and roasting tatties for a couple of days afterwards as the bonfire was kept alight.
In the work under review here, it is particularly pleasing to see the often disparaged Samuel Lover and Charles Lever being afforded their rightful place, and
William Carleton's seemingly unassailable position as arbiter of all that was authentic about rural, Gaelic Ireland, challenged.
into being" (19), she provides perceptive analyses of writers as different as
William Carleton who was creating characters of "psychological complexity" (31) and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu who "specialized in conveying states of mind." On Carleton's 1842 deliberation on the overuse of dialect and the device of peasants talking being replaced by the educated narrator, she writes, "This clearly important moment in the transition from the oral tradition ...
Chapter 8 focuses on
William Carleton and William Sharp (a.k.a.
BOMA President
William Carleton testified several times to try to convince the EPA to conduct further studies before putting all the pressure on the real estate industry.
The Carleton Trail is a signposted walk through the lovely Clogher Valley, a region associated with
William Carleton's writings.
William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (London: 1867; reprint, 1971) 309,316.
The two Irish Victorians are
William Carleton and Thomas D'Arcy Magee, 'comparative failures', 'hampered by an atavistic sense of tradition'; and the Revival is examined in terms of the careers of St John Ervine and Joyce, 'united, if in nothing else, in their complex disrespect for |its~ ambiguous achievements'.
John
William Carleton: "If they sold peach melbas and stottie cakes down south they would increase sales even more."
Dooley begins his analysis by investigating the manner in which the crime was embedded in literary representation and social memory beginning with the most famous account penned by
William Carleton in his 1833 short story, "Wildgoose Lodge." Dooley discusses how the murders were used by Carleton to align himself with the Protestant Ascendancy literary world.
As for Writing Landscapes, Duffy's love of South Ulster and the writings of
William Carleton and Patrick Kavanagh shines through.
Analysis of the representation of the two important novelists in this first volume, Maria Edgeworth and
William Carleton, leads to broadly similar conclusions: the latter is cast as the writer of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, though the Field Day Anthology, gives a fragment of his wonderful novel The Black Prophet, while Edgeworth, it appears, wrote Castle Rackrent, The Absentee and "An Essay On Irish Bulls," though the present anthology has also an extract from her memoir of her father concerning the 1798 rising, to complement the passage from Mary Leadbeater's Annals of Ballitore also included.