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- Title: Fallen Nobility: The World of John Mcgahern (Critical Essay)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 348 KB
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There is a temptation to interpret the writings of John McGahern as one last, loving exercise in the old Gaelic mode of caoineadh ar cheim sios na nuasal, a lament for fallen nobility: but the writer is also shrewdly aware that the announcement of the death of a code is often the signal for a major attempt to revive it. Although many of the characters in That They May Face the Rising Sun are poor in a material sense, and some are either gruff or completely silent, they bear themselves like mined aristocrats, for whom the exchange of money is a vulgar embarrassment and custom far more significant than any law. 'No misters in this part of the world', says one of them early on in a beloved local mantra, 'nothing but broken-down gentlemen'. (1) In one sense, that line evokes the great elegists from a toppled Gaelic aristocracy, from Daibhi O Bruadair to Aogan O Rathaille, and seems to suggest that it may not be possible to write a conventional bourgeois novel about such people. Yet, at a deeper level still, the remark recalls the rural villages of Jane Austen in the England of 1800, that mellow, fading world in which a few families shared scraps of news and gossip in the slowest of slow motion.
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