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The Last Geraldine Officer
Thomas McCarthy
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Description for The Last Geraldine Officer
Paperback. Intends to recreate a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ('Geraldine') family that has tilled the soil of County Waterford, absorbed its language and history, and sent young men back to British regiments, particularly the Irish Guards. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ('Geraldine') family that has tilled the soil of County Waterford, absorbed its language and history, and sent young men back to British regiments, particularly the Irish Guards. Focusing on his Gaelic-speaking soldier-poet, Sir Gerald FitzGerald, and his man-servant, Paax Foley, McCarthy creates a fully imagined landscape of men escaped from Irish neutrality to fight against Fascism. Moving from ballad to prose poem, from mid-century Gaelic ... Read more
The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ('Geraldine') family that has tilled the soil of County Waterford, absorbed its language and history, and sent young men back to British regiments, particularly the Irish Guards. Focusing on his Gaelic-speaking soldier-poet, Sir Gerald FitzGerald, and his man-servant, Paax Foley, McCarthy creates a fully imagined landscape of men escaped from Irish neutrality to fight against Fascism. Moving from ballad to prose poem, from mid-century Gaelic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464218
SKU
V9780856464218
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Ref
99-26
About Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy, born in Co. Waterford in 1954, was educated at University College, Cork. He received the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1977 and the American-Irish Foundation's Literary Award in 1984. His last two books are 'Mr Dineen's Careful Parade' (1999) and 'Merchant Prince' (2005). He lives in Cork and works at the city library. He is a member of Aosdana. ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Geraldine Officer
Not many poets have the gift of being able to write so tenderly about private affections and so acutely about public figures and events. - Brendan Kennelly