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Author O'Flaherty's hero is a Madden of Connemara-a distinction that may not mean much to a Smith of Brooklyn or a Brown of Grand Rapids but apparently means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very...
...rustic short stories, Liam O'Flaherty finds himself in the uneventful void of an Ireland at peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then meekly break...
...wanted to resume his own kind of globetrotting, which began when he went to Oxford University in 1935 on a Rhodes scholarship from Princeton and, in the course of acquiring an honors degree in modern history, stayed abroad for 39 months and logged more than 100,000 miles from Connemara to Constantinople...
...once called it the cracked looking glass of a servant. The fashions of London, Rome and Paris were often reflected, secondhand and second-rate, in Irish painting. This week a Manhattan gallery exhibited the work of twelve Irish painters, who reflected not Europe but Dublin, the ragged hills of Connemara and the midlands around Tullamore...
...night the fisherfolk watched and wondered, until at dawn, before all Connemara's eyes, the phantom city-a fleet of 30 Spanish trawlers riding out the storm in the lee of the Aran Islands-hauled up its anchors and sailed away...