Mother Ireland (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edna O’Brien
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Time of Work: 1935-1950
- Setting: Tuamgraney, County Clare, and Dublin, Ireland
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History
- Subjects: Culture, Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Tradition, Rural or country life, Guilt, Women’s issues, Lifestyles, Catholics or Catholic Church, Loneliness, Ireland or Irish people, Nostalgia
- Locales: England, Ireland
Form and Content
Mother Ireland is Edna O’Brien’s first book-length work of nonfiction, a medium to which she has not devoted very much attention during her prolific writing career. In certain respects, the book is a consolidation and repetition of material which the author had already treated fictionally in her first three novels—The Country Girl (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964)—and more graphically and with greater art in A Pagan Place (1970). The autobiographical content of Mother...
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