Word: horniman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once befriended in India, Felix casually pinches the picture for him, and the two of them make off for Dublin. The rest of Novelist Tracy's book is a Waughtered-down Irish stew...
...includes as engaging a collection of eccentrics as have walked the pages of recent fiction: wealthy old Dowager Horniman, who cuts her gowns from old muslin curtains and passes her time collecting pet jellyfish "cast up on the beach by the insensate cruelty of the Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum...