The News from Ireland Study Guide

As the story begins, the narrator relays the situation of Fogarty, the butler at the Pulvertaft estate, who serves along with his sister, Miss Fogarty, the household cook. Fogarty is thinking about the new governess, Anna Marie Heddoe, newly arrived from England. Fogarty's musings drift to thoughts of others who have also come here as strangers, namely the Celts, St. Patrick and the Vikings. (read more)