{"product_id":"2026200017233-secondhand-irish-life-and-character","title":"Irish Life And Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Some pages folded, minor tears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nPublished in its second edition by Hodder \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216189661403,"sku":"2026200017233-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9cd07b39-448a-461c-b46d-491e01a81119.png?v=1788404897","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017233-secondhand-irish-life-and-character","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}