![]() ![]() For their own safety, the Gaults must leave Ireland, an idea that eight-year-old Lucy finds unbearable. The young man’s family will have nothing of Everard’s pleas for forgiveness. ![]() Springing to the defence of his English wife and their daughter, Lahardane’s Protestant owner Everard Gault fires his shotgun meaning only to frighten the trespassers but wounding one of them. Three men appear in the grounds of Lahardane to burn the house down. William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault begins in the troubled year of 1921. Below are five of the best Irish books I’ve read, just one with a link to a full review on this blog. Their work is often tinged with more than a little melancholy, perhaps only to be expected given their country’s history. So much of the quietly elegant, understated writing I admire turns out to be by Irish authors. The heading for this post could just as easily be 10, 15 or even 50 Irish books I’ve read. ![]()
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