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- W2473659242 abstract "Dublin-born Richard Power (1928–1970) was a bilingual novelist and short story writer whose best-known work, The Hungry Grass (1969), is a novel dealing with the last days of a parish priest in rural Ireland. Eleven years earlier Power published Ull i mBarr an Gheagain, an autobiographical work in which he recalls the periods he spent living on the Aran Islands, where he studied Irish, and in Birmingham, where he worked as a navvy and manual labourer during the mid-1950s, before moving to Iowa. Translated into English by his brother Victor, the book’s last five chapters provide a rare autobiographical insight into Irish emigrant culture in post-war Birmingham. In recording his impressions of the Irish men and women he encounters in the boarding houses, pubs and dancehalls of the city, Power is troubled by ‘the restless, unsettling way of life that they engaged in, without any definite goal, without household, without authority, without having to answer to their family, to the state, to anyone at all’. Yet their seizing of the personal and social freedoms offered by emigration makes him question his own preconceptions about the privations of exile and the consolations of nostalgia: ‘Could it be that my own memories were already eroding so that they’d be consistent with the unreality I’d carry about with me from now on?’ The final chapter, reproduced below, shows the narrator leaving Birmingham by train and finding himself eavesdropping on a subdued, tragicomic mini-drama which, as Power configures it, has the unity, momentum and compressed lyricism of a short story. Indeed, the chapter’s diminuendo mood and mimetic power are reminiscent of Sean O’Faolain’s ‘A Broken World’ (1937), his Joyce-inspired attempt to write a chapter in the moral history of his country, which is also set in a train compartment." @default.
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- W2473659242 title "Richard Power, Apple on the Treetop" @default.
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