The Irish Art of Controversy Biography much of it unfamiliar

much of it unfamiliar

whether in poetry or prose

by reason of his short life and limited output

Lance Thackery’s satires of upper-class life

The Irish Art of Controversy Biography much of it unfamiliarNorth American customer should order from Cornell University Press. Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was popular, wrote George Moore, especially when accompanied with the breaking of chairs. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a