| Domain | Article in Book |
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| Title | "Father Boyce, Laly Morgan and Sir Walter Scott : a study in intertextuality and Catholic polemics" |
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| Title Of Book | Murphy, James H. (ed.), Evangelicals and Catholics in nineteenth century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005) |
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| Author | Maume, Patrick |
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| Publication Date | 2005 |
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| Start-End Page | 165 — 178 |
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| Number Of Pages | 14 p. |
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| Era Covered | 1800 — 1900 |
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| Language | English |
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| Country | Ireland |
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| Notes | Outlines the career and writings of Fr. John Boyce (1810-64) a Donegal-born priest of strong nationalist views who emigrated to America in the late 1840s to minister to Famine emigrants. He published three novels - SHANDY MAGUIRE, a fiercely anti-Orange, anti-Protestant and anti-landlord depiction of Donegal life; THE SPAEWIFE, a historical novel containing a vitriolic portrayal of Queen elizabeth I and contrasting Irish loyalty to Catholicism with English materialism and apostasy; NORA LEE, OR THE YANKEE IN IRELAND, a nostalgic portrayal of Donegal incorporating a satire on American nativists (whose hostility Boyce had encountered in Worcester, Massachusetts). The article discusses how Boyce's first two novels draw on and criticise literary models provided by Lady Morgan and Sir Walter Scott respectively and argue that previous discussions of Boyce as a pioneer of Irish-American fiction have tended to underestimate his hostility to Protestantism (partly beca use he was criticised by Orestes Brownson for not being sufficiently anti-Protestant). |
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