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    Sunset on the Window-Panes
    Sunset on the Window-Panes
    Sunset on the Window-Panes
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    Sunset on the Window-Panes

    By Walter Macken

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    Careless of the hurts he inflicts along the way, Bart O'Breen walks his own road, as proud as the devil and as lonely as hell.

    In the Galway village of Boola, Bart O'Breen is a strong wilful young man who leaves trouble and harm in his wake. As always in a novel by Walter Macken, there is a host of memorable secondary characters, and an unfailing accuracy and warmth in the depiction of the life of the "plain people" of the west of Ireland. One of Walter Macken's finest novels, Sunset on the Window-Panes is a moving and memorable story of Irish life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateApr 24, 2014
    ISBN9781447269335
    Sunset on the Window-Panes
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    Walter Macken

    Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is the Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaptation of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.

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      The story cycles around Bart O'Breen, a man who has no real consideration for other people but skates through life doing as he wishes. There was Breeda, a lovely young girl robbed of sight after a fall off a cliff. There was Sheil, who tempted Bart into the shame that drove him from the village. Then there was Joseph, who had priestly ambition, doomed to disappointment. All of them whose lives are influenced by Bart, but will he ever realise what he has done?It's all about a small village in Galway. The things that happen and the ways people deal with life, love and disappointments. Very readable, I found it better than many others I've tried reading.

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