Wild Irish Girl (Morgan - Oxford ed.)

Authors: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan

File Under: Morgan

ISBN: 9780199552498

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

"I long to study the purely national, purely natural character of an Irishwoman."

When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for his dissipated ways, he goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past -- a dilapidated castle, a Catholic priest, a deposed king and the king's lovely daughter Glorvina. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns the history, culture, and language of a country he had once scorned, but he must do so in disguise, for his own English ancestors are responsible for the ruin of the Gaelic family he comes to love.