⸺ TOM O’KELLY. Pp. 232. (Duffy). 3s. 6d. 1905.
An ugly picture of lower middle class life in a small Irish provincial town. It depicts the vulgarity and shoneenism of this class, its drunkenness, its efforts to imitate the well-to-do Protestant better classes, &c., &c. Unsparing ridicule is showered upon Nationalist politics and politicians. The unpleasantness of the picture is somewhat relieved by the doings of Tom O’Kelly and the juvenile Ballytowners. Very slight plot.
MORAN, J. J.
⸺ THE DUNFERRY RISIN’. (Digby, Long). 1894.
A study of the Fenian movement. The Evening Sun of London devoted a two-column review to the book, written by an old participator in the Fenian movement (we understand that the writer was the late J. F. X. O’Brien, M.P.), in which the story was described as one of the most vivid pictures of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and their movement that had yet been written.
⸺ IRISH STEW. (Digby, Long). 1895.
A collection of humorous stories. “Jack Arnold’s Tour,” the longest story, may be taken as typical. It relates the comical adventures of an English visitor at Bundoran. The stories are remarkable for their spirited and racy dialogue.
⸺ STORIES OF THE IRISH REBELLION. (Aberdeen: Moran). 1s. 6d.
Short stories, noteworthy for vividness and dramatic power (for example, the story of Leonie Guiscard and Teeling). Humour and pathos alternate. Neither is overdone.—(Publ.).
⸺ TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN GREEN. (Aberdeen: Moran). 6s. 1898.