Hurrish
by LAWLESS EMILY (9780862819316)

The unusual title of this compelling novel is derived from its hero, Horatio O'Brien, who is familiarly known to his family and friends as "Hurrish". Hurrish is a gentle giant of a man who farms a smallholding in the Burren district of Co. Clare. Emily Lawless, writing always from a loyalist perspective, offers a violent tale of local rivalries about land, resulting in brutal confrontations and, finally, in murder. The protagonists of this setting are seen as victims of a disorderly society and which mistrust of the law leads inevitably to brutality and chaos. The author's own antagonism to the Land League, set up to better the lot of impoverished smallholders, is clear, yet she does not exonerate the colonial authority from blame either. Even after all these years Hurrish is still a novel to be read and relished as an elucidation of the Irish Question.

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