Word: duncrana
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Northern Ireland's "lost six counties" (Tyrone) where those of the Protestant majority have stubbornly held to their British loyalties, their Orange Lodges and their midget state in the face of the Catholic minority. Novelist Roth deals with the minority. His village stage is a stony place called Duncrana, and the leading man on that stage is both a teetotaler and an informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea. (In fact...
Dermot O'Neill is the younger son of a proud Duncrana family dedicated to farming and to the twin pieties of Catholicism and Irish history. When the pieties turn out not to be identical twins. Dermot is doomed. It is 1940. and in the farmhouse kitchen the O'Neills happily record Hitler's latest victory over the British. By tradition. England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity, and the Irish Republican Army-after a long time in the doldrums-is "out" again. Its members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish...
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