Word: irelanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died in 1973. The generous expanse of her life was even greater than the raw dates suggest. Her earliest years were spent in a social system that was virtually indistinguishable from feudalism. She was raised at Bowen's Court, the family home in County Cork, Ireland, on land that had been in Bowen possession since 1653. She spent her last years teaching in American colleges, living in rooms or rented apartments and listening to students worrying about the war in Viet Nam. At the end, her life had been touched directly by both Cromwell and Khe Sanh...
Along the way she had written ten novels, numerous short stories, essays and several travel books, winning for her work a respectful following both in Britain and the U.S. Biographer Victoria Glendinning, a British journalist who has lived in Ireland, argues passionately that Bowen is important, not only for her writings but also for her timing. Thanks to the Irish
...falter, Elizabeth transformed herself from acolyte into doyenne. Neither rich nor silly enough to qualify as one of Evelyn Waugh's bright young things, she became a hostess whom congenital partygoers tried to please. When she inherited Bowen's Court, friends and supplicants trooped obediently to Ireland, where they endured without electricity or bathrooms. Elizabeth admitted that "the upstairs rooms are still rather Chas. Addams-ish-I often remind myself of his hostess showing in a guest: 'This is your room . . . If you want anything, just scream." She outlived her house. It was sold and then demolished...
...Journey into Night, whom O'Neill modeled on his own father. Con dwells on Wellington's praise of his combat heroics as Tyrone dwells on Edwin Booth's praise of his acting. Both men are united in a fear of the poverty of Ireland and a desire to conceal their peasant origins. Both loathe the modern currents of their times. Melody despises the Jacksonian rabble just as Tyrone reviles such (to him) modern playwrights as Strindberg and Ibsen...
...much shoplifting in Dublin but I am not clear how one calculates what is the right amount of shoplifting for Dublin." He took figures of speech literally and then offered advice on solving problems that only he could discern: how to keep blood from curdling, what to do about Ireland's excessive-burning of midnight...