PHIL PURCEL, THE PIG-DRIVER.
Phil Purcel was a singular character, for he was never
married; but notwithstanding his singularity, no man
ever possessed, for practical purposes, a more plentiful
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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 ...
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Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee
William Carleton