PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
I am agreeably called upon by my bookseller to prepare
for a Second Edition of “Willy Reilly.”
This is at all times a pleasing call upon an author;
and...
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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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