If you have a strong anti-Catholic bias, you may not like this story. The people, whatever their station in life (we have several members of the Catholic clergy and a nurse foremost) are individuals first. His target audience is one with an interest in Irish history, but he is never dry, never lapses into the lecture-like style that I’ve seen in some writers who are specialists in a given academic area use when the narrative aims at their area of expertise. He’s done a whole lot of research so that he can provide his novels with a rich, accurate background. He favors the period when the whole world is changing–World War I is either imminent, taking place, or we’re in the aftermath Ireland struggles for her own freedom, and he doesn’t gloss over the errors and tragedies that go with this struggle–and I mentally note that it’s also the period of the Russian Revolution. Now this.Įverything I’ve read by Delaney thus far (including Shannon) is set in some part of Ireland for most of the novel. I was surprised again, then, at how good Tipperary was. I was spellbound by his Ireland, but there are a lot of people with one remarkable book in them. There are some writers that have such a gift for spinning a compelling tale while seamlessly weaving in subplots that the rest of us can but applaud.
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