The Veiled Woman of Achill
Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama
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Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveveiledwomanofach0000byrn
- ISBN-101848891474
- ISBN-139781848891470
- Library of Congress Control Number2012427515
- OCLC Control Number766339124
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781848891470
- Open LibraryOL25378897M
Classifications
- DDC364.15092
- LCCHV6535.I742 A35 2012
- LCCHV6248.L995
and 1 more
- LCCHV
Description
Patricia Byrne is a Mayo-born writer who lives in Limerick, Ireland. She writes narrative nonfiction and personal essays and is a graduate of the NUI Galway writer programme. In 1894 on Achill Island in the west of Ireland, an English landowner Agnes MacDonnell is brutally attacked and her Valley House home set on fire. Agnes survives but is so disfigured that she wears a veil in public for the rest of her life. The island’s wild man James Lynchehaun is convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison. He dramatically escapes captivity on two occasions and wins a ground-breaking legal case in the United States where he successfully resists extradition. Lynchehaun becomes a folk hero. The writer John Millington Synge visits Mayo in 1904-5 where he locates his famous drama The Playboy of the Western World. James Lynchehaun was one of Synge’s inspirations for the character of the playboy Christy Mahon.
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