The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys

ISBN-13: 9781554810321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 550 str.

(Lady Morgan) Sydney Owenson; Dr Julia M. Wright

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The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanity--a romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towards the United Irishmen Uprising of 1798. It follows Murrogh O'Brien as he tries to find his way between his nostalgic father, the politically savvy Irish-Italian nun Beavoin O'Flaherty, the dashing flirt, Lady Knocklofty, the idealistic United Irishmen, and his comically old-fashioned aunts, only to be caught up in a sweep of arrests and revelations in the novel's dramatic fourth volume. The O'Briens' original footnotes and authorial digressions detail the failure of colonial policy in Ireland, contributing to the novel's long-standing reputation as a credible historical account of the turbulent 1790s. This Broadview Edition includes extensive historical documents on Irish politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews of The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys: A National Tale

Appendix A: Selected Historical People, Groups, and Events

Appendix B: Nationalist Movements: From the Volunteers to the United Irishmen

1. From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809)
2. “Original Declaration of the United Irishmen” (1791), Appendix I of Charles Hamilton Teeling’s Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798
3. From William Drennan, A Letter to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant, &c. of Ireland (1795)
4. From William Sampson, Memoirs of William Sampson (1807)
5. From Charles Hamilton Teeling, Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798 (1828)
6. From Thomas Moore, The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831)
7. From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809)

Appendix C: “The Cause of Reform”: From Grattan’s Parliament toCatholic Emancipation

1. From Henry Grattan’s speech on “A Bill for the Relief of theRoman Catholics” (25 December 1781)
2. From Henry Grattan, “Declaration of Right” (22 February1782)
3. From William Drennan, Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799)
4. From Denys Scully, A Statement of the Penal Laws (1812)
5. From Robert Torrens, The Victim of Intolerance; Or, the Hermitof Killarney. A Catholic Tale (1814)
6. From The Speech of Daniel O’Connell, Esq. at the CatholicAggregate Meeting, at the Freemasons’ Hall, on Feb. 26, 1825
7. From “Aristocracy,” in Lady Morgan’s Book of the Boudoir(1829)

Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys

1. From the Morning Chronicle (22 November 1827)
2. From the Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) (7 January 1828)
3. From R. Shelton Mackenzie’s “Editor’s Preface,” The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (1856)

Works Cited and Recommended Reading