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A Gaelic Romance
Colum, Padraic | February 13, 1924 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Deirdre," by James Stephens. Stephens might have made use of one or another of the accepted, ways of rendering the elements of Gaelic romance into English-Standish Hayes O'Grady's way, or Campbell of Islay's way, or Whitley Stokes's way, or Douglas Hyde's way. Stephens's Conachur and Maeve, his Naoise and Peirdre, his Fergus and Lavarcham will be perfectly recognizable by those who have gone the ways that J.M. Synge spoke of. Stephens's is a tragical love story the scene of which is laid in the Ireland of victorious champions and hard-fighting kings, of poets and magicians.

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DEIRDRE (Book); STEPHENS, James; ROMANCE fiction; LOVE stories; BOOKS; IRELAND
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