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Priestly Fictions: Popular Irish Novelists of the Early 20th Century: Patrick A. Sheehan, Joseph Guinan, Gerald O'Donovan

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From: The Catholic Historical Review
Date: 19970701
Author:Mahony, Robert

Priestly Fictions:Popular Irish Novelists of the Early 20th Century:Patrick A. Sheehan, Joseph Guinan, Gerald O'Donovan. By Catherine Candy. (Dublin:Wolfhound Press. 1996. Pp. 216. IR 112.99 paperback.)

This is a study long overdue and very much to be welcomed.The Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century seems so abundant in writers of commanding reputation (e.g., W B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, even-though he held himself aloof-James Joyce) that it is easy to forget that neither they nor the revival movement itself was very popular in their time. ...

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