In Dark and Evil Days 1936 Francis Sheehy Skeffington ~ Historical Novel of County Wexford Ireland ~ James Joyce interest

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Title: In Dark and Evil Days

Author: Francis Sheehy Skeffington

Description: Dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top corner of ffep and half-title page clipped. Bookseller rubber-stamp on ffep, else interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of author. pp. xxviii, 237.

Historical novel of Ireland by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878-1916), an Irish writer, radical activist, and a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce at University College, Dublin. (The character McCann in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero, is based on Skeffington.) In Dark and Evil Days was written in 1907 and published posthumously. The setting is County Wexford in 1798.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: James Duffy & Co.
Place: Dublin
Year: 1936

Keywords: James Joyce, County Wexford, fiction, novel, Irish literature, Ireland,

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