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    The Bogman

    By Walter Macken

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    Orphaned at a young age, Cahal Kinsella returns from Dublin to the small farming village of Caherlo to his tyrannical grandfather, and must assert his individuality if he is to have any hope of freedom from his misery.

    Walter Macken paints a haunting and memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, or loveless arranged marriages, and of rebellion against suffering from social mores.

    Originally written in 1952, New Island’s Modern Irish Classics series brings this magical book back to life.

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    ‘Comic…touching…skilfully told…excellent’ -Spectator

    ‘Walter Macken’s writing is as beautiful as it is simple, his prose is accessible and is constantly moving…[Macken] humanizes history, reminding readers that the people who lived in these times laughed, cried, hated and loved just as they do now’ – GTI Gazette
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Island Books
    Release dateNov 4, 2011
    ISBN9781848404021
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    Walter Macken

    Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is the Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaptation of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.

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