Length10h 50m
About this audiobook
Irish Memories by Somerville and Ross is a nostalgic autobiographic work describing the experiences and incidents of the inseparable Anglo-Irish second cousins, Edith Sommerville and Violet Martin, based on their extensive diaries. Together they used to pseudonyms 'Sommerville and Ross.' Irish Memories covers their family history and tells us much about what life was like for young women in their time. Their travels around Ireland give the reader a rich picture of Irish social life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dominated by class differences between the wealthy Anglo-Irish Protestant elite and the Irish Catholic peasantry in the decades prior to Irish independence. Somerville and Ross' writings have been attacked by critics for a perceived stereotype of drunken and cunning Irish peasantry although they made fun of the Anglo-Irish gentry. In the post-Civil War 1930s and 1940s, Sommerville and Ross were out of fashion in Ireland. However renewed interest in the Anglo Irish Ascendancy in the 1960s popularised their works again and later a television series, The Irish R.M. starring actor Peter Bowles, was filmed based on their stories.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2THE TENTS OF THE ARABS.
3INTRODUCTORY
4CHAPTER I THE MARTINS OF ROSS
5CHAPTER II “THE CHIEF”
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6CHAPTER III MAINLY MARIA EDGEWORTH
7CHAPTER IV OLD FORGOTTEN THINGS
8CHAPTER V EARLY WEST CARBERY
9CHAPTER VI HER MOTHER
10CHAPTER VII MY MOTHER
11CHAPTER VIII HERSELF
12CHAPTER IX MYSELF, WHEN YOUNG
13CHAPTER X WHEN FIRST SHE CAME
14CHAPTER XI “AN IRISH COUSIN”
15CHAPTER XII THE YEARS OF THE LOCUST
16CHAPTER XIII THE RESTORATION
17CHAPTER XIV RICKEEN
18CHAPTER XV FAITH AND FAIRIES
19CHAPTER XVI BELIEFS AND BELIEVERS
20CHAPTER XVII LETTERS FROM ROSS
21CHAPTER XVIII “TOURS, IDLE TOURS”
22CHAPTER XIX OF DOGS
23CHAPTER XX “THE REAL CHARLOTTE.”
24CHAPTER XXI SAINT ANDREWS
25CHAPTER XXII AT ÉTAPLES
26CHAPTER XXIII PARIS AGAIN
27CHAPTER XXIV HORSES AND HOUNDS
28CHAPTER XXV “THE IRISH R.M.”
29CHAPTER XXVI OF GOOD TIMES
30CHAPTER XXVII VARIOUS OPINIONS
31CHAPTER XXVIII THE LAST
32APPENDIX I LETTERS FROM CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES KENDAL BUSHE TO MRS. BUSHE
33APPENDIX II
34APPENDIX III HER FRIENDS
35FOOTNOTES:
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