GLENMORNAN
An Irish Novel by PATRICK MacGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead End," "The Rat Pit," "The Great Push," etc. Crown 8vo. 6/- net.
In his new book Mr. MacGill gives a complete picture of Irish peasant life in his native county of Donegal. Doalty Gallagher, becoming tired of journalism and Fleet Street, returns to the peace and quiet of his old home. Here he sets himself to work on the land, and to renew his acquaintance with the people whom he had known in his childhood—Grania Coolin, the lone widow woman, Dennys, the drover and man of the world, Owen Briney, the close-fisted farmer, Oidny Leahys, the peasant philosopher, and Sheila Dermod, the fairest girl in all the barony. Doalty finds however, that the years spent in the land of the Sassenach have changed him. He has lost the simple and trusting faith of his fathers, and when, desperately in love with Sheila, he asks her to marry him, the priest intervenes and Doalty is forced to leave the country, an object of universal suspicion. The peasantry of Glenmornan, turf-diggers, creel-makers, potheen-distillers, cattle-drovers and knitters of stockings are presented with insight, freshness and sympathy. The petty vices of the villagers of Greenanore, the gombeen men, the rent-collectors and the priests are laid bare by Mr. MacGill, who knows them as few other writers know them. He is not an artist from without, looking in and describing what he sees, but one who tells of what he himself has felt and known.
THE BROWN BRETHREN
By PATRICK MacGILL. Second printing. Price 6/- net.
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THE RAT-PIT
By PATRICK MacGILL, Author of "Children of the Dead End." Crown 8vo. Price 6/- net. Inland Postage 6d. extra.