An edition of The Veiled Woman of Achill (2012)

The Veiled Woman of Achill

Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama

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An edition of The Veiled Woman of Achill (2012)

The Veiled Woman of Achill

Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama

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Patricia Byrne is a Mayo-born writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland. She writes narrative nonfiction and personal essays and is a graduate of the NUI Galway writer programme.

In 1894 on Achill Island in the west of Ireland, an English landowner Agnes MacDonnell is brutally attacked and her Valley House home set on fire. Agnes survives but is so disfigured that she wears a veil in public for the rest of her life.

The island’s wild man James Lynchehaun is convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison. He dramatically escapes captivity on two occasions and wins a ground-breaking legal case in the United States where he successfully resists extradition. Lynchehaun becomes a folk hero.

The writer John Millington Synge visits Mayo in 1904-5 where he locates his famous drama The Playboy of the Western World. James Lynchehaun was one of Synge’s inspirations for the character of the playboy Christy Mahon.

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The Collins Press
Language
English
Pages
232

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Subjects

Christy Mahon, Trials, litigation, Women landowners, Characters, Social conditions, Crimes against, History, Synge, j. m. (john millington), 1871-1909, Landowners, Women, crimes against, Women, ireland, Ireland, social conditions

People

J. M. Synge (1871-1909), Agnes MacDonnell (d. 1923), James Lynchehaun (ca. 1860-ca. 1937), Paul Carney

Places

Achill Island, Ireland, Achill Island (Ireland)

Times

19th century
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The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama
2012, The Collins Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
364.15092
Library of Congress
HV6535.I742 A35 2012, HV6248.L995, HV

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Pagination
vii, 232 p. :
Number of pages
232

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OL25378897M
Internet Archive
veiledwomanofach0000byrn
ISBN 10
1848891474
ISBN 13
9781848891470
LCCN
2012427515
OCLC/WorldCat
766339124

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