The Veiled Woman of Achill

Download or Read eBook The Veiled Woman of Achill PDF written by Patricia Byrne and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Veiled Woman of Achill
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Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781848899537
ISBN-13 : 184889953X
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Book Synopsis The Veiled Woman of Achill by : Patricia Byrne

Book excerpt: At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.


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