Guests of the Nation (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank O'Connor
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The first third of the twentieth century
- Setting: Ireland
- Principal Characters: Bonaparte, Noble, Jeremiah Donovan, Hawkins, Belcher, An Irish woman
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, Revenge, Ethics, Kidnapping, Soldiers, Armies, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: Ireland
The Story
In the first of the four numbered sections of “Guests of the Nation,” the main characters are introduced. Though Ireland and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are not named explicitly, through mention of names such as Claregalway, reference to the British as foreigners, and dialectal expressions such as “divil” (devil), the implicit premise is established that two ordinary British soldiers have been abducted by the IRA and have been held on a rural farm for a period of several days or weeks. Just as the British soldiers got on well with their prior IRA captors...
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