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Llywelyn, Morgan.
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Women revolutionaries -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Women farmers -- Fiction.
Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Llywelyn, Morgan.
Women revolutionaries -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Women farmers -- Fiction.
Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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1949 : a novel of the
Irish
Free State / Morgan Llywelyn.
by
Llywelyn, Morgan.
Forge, c2003.
Call #:
FICTION LLY
Subjects
Women revolutionaries -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Women farmers -- Fiction.
Ireland -- History -- 20th
century
-- Fiction.
Series
Llywelyn, Morgan.
Irish
century
series
.
ISBN:
0312867530 (acid-free paper)
Alternate title:
Nineteen forty-nine
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-414).
Summary:
"The masterly epic, The
Irish
Century
, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921. The struggle of the
Irish
people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth
century
. Morgan Llywelyn has chosen it as the subject of her major work, a meticulously researched, multinovel chronicle that began with 1916, continued in 1921, and that she now brings up to the midcentury in 1949. Her new novel book tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. She experiences the tumult of the times in a way that brings those days vividly alive for every reader. The tragedy of
Irish
civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot hold jobs, divorce is illegal, and the IRA has become a band of outlaws still devoted to and fighting for a Republic that never lived. The Great Depression stalks the world, and war is always on the horizon, whether in Northern Ireland, Spain, or elsewhere on the European continent. Ursula, the adopted daughter of a revolutionary, Ned Halloran, remains an idealist believing in Ireland. She works for the fledgling
Irish
radio service and then for the League of Nations, while her personal life is torn between two men: an
Irish
civil servant and an English pilot. One is too much a gentleman, and the other too much a scoundrel. Defying Church and State, Ursula bears a child out of wedlock, though she must leave the country to do so, and nearly loses her life in the opening days of World War II. Eventually she returns to an Ireland that is steadfastly determined to remain neutral during the war an Ireland shaken by the great duel between De Valera and Winston Churchill. As always with Ireland, politics and passion go hand in hand. 1949 is the story of one strong woman who lives through the progress of Ireland from a broken land to the beginnings of a modern independent state."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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