Julia Cahill’s Curse (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Moore
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
- Setting: Western Ireland
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Julia Cahill, Father Madden
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Villages, Immigration or emigration, Oppression, Moral conditions, Illegitimacy, Ireland or Irish people, Priests, Fairies
- Locales: Ireland
The Story
A cart driver in a small Irish village has a passenger from outside the village. The passenger asks about a young woman named Margaret, who recently has given birth to a child out of wedlock. Because she and her child were forced to emigrate to the United States, an association is made between her experience with the community's moral intolerance and that of Julia Cahill. The latter was forced to leave Ireland twenty years previously but cursed the parish before she left.
The listener's implied incredulity about the effectiveness of Julia's curse on the village...
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