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The World of Bryan MacMahon explores MacMahon the storyman, the master, the balladmaker, the Gaeilgeoir and translator of Peig Sayers' autobiography. It also investigates the world MacMahon inherited, the world he inhabited and the world he helped to create.
Winner of the 1993 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. MacMahon is one of Ireland's great writers, a teacher who, to use his own inimitable phrase, has left 'the track of his teeth on a parish for three generations'. This account of his life has all the magic, drama, love of language, and love of Ireland that has made him famous as a talker, ballad-maker, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer of international stature.
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This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent decades between 1330 and 1450.
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MacMahon represents a particularly Irish form of storytelling that largely belongs to a bygone era... interesting reactions of significant characters in significant situations.--World Literature Today