The Veiled Woman of Achill
Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama
by Patricia Byrne
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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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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 conditionsPeople
J. M. Synge (1871-1909), Agnes MacDonnell (d. 1923), James Lynchehaun (ca. 1860-ca. 1937), Paul CarneyPlaces
Achill Island, Ireland, Achill Island (Ireland)Times
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The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama
2012, The Collins Press
in English
1848891474 9781848891470
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226) and index.
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