By William Carleton
ELLEN DUNCAN
There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that
even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy
are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling
them. S...
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William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ...
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