PREFACE
It was not my intention to have written any Preface
to this book, but to have allowed it simply to speak
for itself. As it is very likely, however, that
both it and the motives of its au...
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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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Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent
William Carleton