Barlow Jane
Jane Barlow (1857 – 17 April 1917) was an Irish novelist born in Clontarf, County Dublin and died in Bray, County Wicklow.[1] She is noted for her poems describing the lives of the Irish peasantry, chiefly about Lisconnel and Ballyhoy, in relation to both landlords and the Irish potato famine. Barlow was the daughter of Rev. James William Barlow, vice-provost of Trinity College, Dublin. She spent most of her life living in a thatched cottage in Raheny, Dublin. Barlow wrote both poems and novels. Her poetry collections include Bog-land Studies (1892), The End of Elfintown (1894), Ghost-Bereft (1901), The Mockers and Other Verses (1908), Doings and Dealings (1913, Between Doubting and Daring (1916), Irish Idylls (1892, went into eight editions), A Creel of Irish Stories (1897), From the East unto the West (1898), From the Land of the Shamrock (1900), By Beach and Bog Land (1905), Irish Neighbours (1907) and Irish Ways (1909). Her novels include Kerrigan’s Quality (1894) and The Founding of Fortunes (1902).
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Originally published in 1915. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Mrs. Kilfoyle's Cloak THE opprobrious proverb already mentioned is not the only permanent mark of unpopularity that the Tinkers have earned for themselves at Lisconnel. Their very name has become a term of reproach among us, so that " an ould tinker " is recognised as an appropriate epithet for any troublesome beast or disagreeable neighbour. If they were not case-hardened by long experience, they would surely be mortified sometimes at the reception with which they meet almost wherever they go. The approach of the two queer vehicles in which they now generally travel is watched by displeased eyes all over our country-side, and they are so to speak lighted on their way by the gleam of suspicious or resentful glances. And it must be admitted that their evil reputation has not been bestowed upon them gratuitously. According to Ody Rafferty, " The like of such aclanjamfry of thievin' drunken miscreants, you wouldn't aisy get together, if you had a spring- trap set for them at the Ould Fellow's front door for a month of Sundays. And if himself didn't do a hard day's work the time he was consthruct- in' them, he niver done one in his life, and that's a fac'." But Ody is apt to be particularly severe in his strictures upon the Tinkers, because he feels an aggravated form of rivalry existing between him and them. For the wiliness which is understood to be Ody's forte also pre-eminently characterises many of the Tinkers' nefarious proceedings, and this makes it seem to him that they not only set their wits against his, but throw discredit upon his favourite quality by the glaring moral defects which they exhibit in conjunction with it. One's pleasure in being described admiringly as " the ould boyo that's in it," is much diminished when one hears the same thing said b...
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