The Poor Scholar Summary
William Carleton

THE POOR SCHOLAR. One day about the middle of November, in the year 18—­, Dominick M’Evoy and his son Jemmy were digging potatoes on the side of a hard, barren hill, called Esker Dhu.&... 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