A Row of Shaws
Terry Eagleton: That Bastard Shaw, 21 June 2018
Judging Shaw
by Fintan O’Toole.
Royal Irish Academy, 381 pp., £28, October 2017,978 1 908997 15 9 Show More
by Fintan O’Toole.
Royal Irish Academy, 381 pp., £28, October 2017,
“... which recently afflicted the six counties still under British rule (the ‘sick counties’, Flann O’Brien called them) also brought the world’s attention to bear on the island as a whole. Devastated in the 19th century by a famine in which British bungling and indifference played a considerable part, a sizeable segment of the Irish population was ... ”