DeLaney, Frank
Tipperary
- ISBN 13:
- 9780812975949
- author:
- DeLaney, Frank
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Random House Inc
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2008
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 140mm X 209mm
- Genre:
- Fiction - Historical
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Charles O'Brien's life was shaped by passion, violence and land. Born in 1860 into an Irish-Anglo family, he loved his native Ireland and its people. As a healer, Charles traveled the countryside, gathering stories and legends while witnessing the birth of land-reform measures that would lead to Irish independence. In Paris, at the age of forty, Charles met April Burke, an eighteen-year-old Englishwoman who left him smitten. Vowing to improve himself, he returned to Ireland, where he undertook the preservation of Tipperary estate - a place he had lived his whole life. As he worked to preserve this land, Charles wrote the "History" of his own life and country, meeting famous figures like Parnell, Yeats, and Shaw along the way. A present-day commentator also becomes entangled in Charles's story, adding a modern perspective to this epic tale of obsession, devotion, and history.
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