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To describe Knocknagow as an Irish publishing phenomenon would be somewhat of an understatement - it was probably among the most read works of Irish fiction published in the last 100 years, going through a host of reprints at a time when books in rural and small town Ireland were relatively expensive commodities.
Knocknagow (1879) has for its background a good deal of the land problem. The Home Rule League was founded in 1870; Parnell entered Parliament, in 1875; Davitt came out of jail in 1878, and the Land League was founded in 1879. A spirited and idealised novel, “Knocknagow,” written by a fenian who had been in jail, with the whole land question running through it, came in the precise moment that demanded such a book, and it was exactly of the right spirit for a people emerging from bad times. “Thank God, there are happy homes in Tipperary still,” are the last spoken words of the novel, and they measure its qualified optimism.
This REPRINT edition published by Gill Books, 1979 ( for the centenary) as part of a ( short lived) hardcover reprint series called the Sackville Library. Light edgewear and dustmarking, some white fade to the front cover, but solid in binding, no marks or inscriptions internally. Spotting to top of page block ( and this is a thick book, heavy for it's size) .
Includes the introduction ( dated 1887 by Matthew Russell)
