Irish Life And Character
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Some pages folded, minor tears.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Ireland was a land of vivid contradictions — a nation of profound storytellers, fierce political passions, and an inimitable spirit that defied easy categorisation — and Michael MacDonagh's Irish Life and Character stands as one of the most intimate and perceptive portraits of that world ever committed to print. Drawing on his career as a seasoned parliamentary journalist and acute social observer, MacDonagh chronicles the customs, personalities, humour, and idiosyncrasies of the Irish people with a warmth and authority that transforms reportage into something approaching literature. Published in its second edition by Hodder & Stoughton in 1899, this work sits at a rich intersection of social history, cultural commentary, and biographical sketch — a tradition also represented by MacDonagh's acclaimed The Book of Parliament and Bishop Doyle: A Biographical and Historical Study. His prose is both genial and incisive, capturing the cadences of Irish speech and the texture of everyday life with a journalist's eye for detail and a historian's sense of consequence. For readers curious about the soul of Ireland at the cusp of a new century, this volume remains an endlessly rewarding and surprisingly modern testament to a culture in full, complicated bloom.
Author: Michael Macdonagh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1899, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Some pages folded, minor tears.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Ireland was a land of vivid contradictions — a nation of profound storytellers, fierce political passions, and an inimitable spirit that defied easy categorisation — and Michael MacDonagh's Irish Life and Character stands as one of the most intimate and perceptive portraits of that world ever committed to print. Drawing on his career as a seasoned parliamentary journalist and acute social observer, MacDonagh chronicles the customs, personalities, humour, and idiosyncrasies of the Irish people with a warmth and authority that transforms reportage into something approaching literature. Published in its second edition by Hodder & Stoughton in 1899, this work sits at a rich intersection of social history, cultural commentary, and biographical sketch — a tradition also represented by MacDonagh's acclaimed The Book of Parliament and Bishop Doyle: A Biographical and Historical Study. His prose is both genial and incisive, capturing the cadences of Irish speech and the texture of everyday life with a journalist's eye for detail and a historian's sense of consequence. For readers curious about the soul of Ireland at the cusp of a new century, this volume remains an endlessly rewarding and surprisingly modern testament to a culture in full, complicated bloom.