Going to Maynooth Summary
William Carleton

GOING TO MAYNOOTH. Young Denis O’Shaughnessy was old Denis’s son; and old Denis, like many great men before him, was the son of his father and mother in particular, and a long line of resp... Read more

William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ... Read more