Some Lessons In Gaelic

By McCawley Grange
Published by Amolibros
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Published: April 18, 2012
Words: 119,031 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908557247

Short description

When an eleven-year-old English boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion. The town he finds himself in is a small mid-century (1950) maelstrom of snobbery, nationalism, sexual repression and quaint quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy, discharging duties of guidance and tutelage.

Extended description

‘This troubled rite of passage takes the reader back to 1950s’ Southern Ireland and the extraordinary characters of a small fishing village. Some Lesson s in Gaelic is at times touching, evocative and sinister, woven throughout with the wry, sometimes savage self-deprecating humour of a desperately insecure protagonist.’ David Bradley. Olivier Award winning actor

When an eleven-year-old English boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion.

The town he finds himself in is a small mid-century (1950) maelstrom of snobbery, nationalism, sexual repression and quaint quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy, discharging duties of guidance and tutelage with unparalleled fervour. It also has a spectral madman, wandering the Wicklow Mountains, calling to the moon for his young wife who has been buried alive in the bogs.

Avoiding the clutches of the madman and with a pathological desire.. (Read more) ‘This troubled rite of passage takes the reader back to 1950s’ Southern Ireland and the extraordinary characters of a small fishing village. Some Lesson s in Gaelic is at times touching, evocative and sinister, woven throughout with the wry, sometimes savage self-deprecating humour of a desperately insecure protagonist.’ David Bradley. Olivier Award winning actor

When an eleven-year-old English boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion.

The town he finds himself in is a small mid-century (1950) maelstrom of snobbery, nationalism, sexual repression and quaint quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy, discharging duties of guidance and tutelage with unparalleled fervour. It also has a spectral madman, wandering the Wicklow Mountains, calling to the moon for his young wife who has been buried alive in the bogs.

Avoiding the clutches of the madman and with a pathological desire to avenge all wrongs, be they big or small, real or imagined, he embarks on a mission to win the bemused community to his side. Perhaps trying to murder the meretricious Plunkett brothers isn’t the best way to go about it.

Do we ever see ourselves as others see us? But guided by the gentle Brother Mulligan and the impish but morally sound Poppy Boyle, the boy begins to come to terms with himself and with others and after some harsh lessons, earns through rite of passage, his first steps to adolescence.
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roman catholicism, schooldays, amolibros, schoolboy, southern ireland, mccawley grange, catholic school corporal punishment, rites de passage

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