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The Playboy and the Yellow Lady
some rubbing to covers and yellowed pages, clean unmarked text. The true story of James Lynchehaun, peasant land agent, adventurer and rogue - the model for Synge's Playboy of the Western World - whose brutal assault on an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, on Achill Island one October night in 1894 caused a sensation throughout Ireland. This gripping tale of Lynchehaun's subsequent capture, his daring escape and flight to America, paints a vivid picture of Irish society at the turn of the century and of a man bold enough to step outside its conventions.
231 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
James Carney
53 books2 followersJames Patrick Carney was a noted Irish Celtic scholar.
He was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Synge Street, Dublin. He took his degree at University College Dublin in 1935, before going to Bonn University to study under Rudolf Thurneysen.
On returning to Dublin, Carney worked under Osborn Bergin, Gerard Murphy, Richard Irvine Best and T. F. O'Rahilly. He pioneered an approach to early Irish texts which focused on their literary merit and their affinities with the other literatures of the medieval world. His Studies in Irish Literature and History which appeared in 1956 challenged the 'nativist' approach to Irish literature which had dominated the scholarship of the previous decades. His work on Saint Patrick also proved controversial.
He was attached to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from its foundation by Éamon de Valera in 1940 and became Professor of Irish there. From 1950–52 he was visiting professor at Uppsala University where he and his wife founded a Department of Celtic Studies. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution in 1975. In 1959, he was appointed member of the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala.
He was married to Maura Morrissey, also an academic and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, who predeceased him in 1975. The couple had a son, Paul, who was a judge in the Irish High Court.
He was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Synge Street, Dublin. He took his degree at University College Dublin in 1935, before going to Bonn University to study under Rudolf Thurneysen.
On returning to Dublin, Carney worked under Osborn Bergin, Gerard Murphy, Richard Irvine Best and T. F. O'Rahilly. He pioneered an approach to early Irish texts which focused on their literary merit and their affinities with the other literatures of the medieval world. His Studies in Irish Literature and History which appeared in 1956 challenged the 'nativist' approach to Irish literature which had dominated the scholarship of the previous decades. His work on Saint Patrick also proved controversial.
He was attached to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from its foundation by Éamon de Valera in 1940 and became Professor of Irish there. From 1950–52 he was visiting professor at Uppsala University where he and his wife founded a Department of Celtic Studies. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution in 1975. In 1959, he was appointed member of the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala.
He was married to Maura Morrissey, also an academic and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, who predeceased him in 1975. The couple had a son, Paul, who was a judge in the Irish High Court.
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