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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  Of all the collections of sketches and stories for which nineteenth-century fiction is famous, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. remains foremost for its combined anthropological and comic value. With an ear for native dialogue that some have claimed to be second only to James Joyce's, Somerville and Ross portrayed the lives of the people of the west of Ireland at a time when the entire country was on the verge of serious historical change.

This collection provided the last few chuckles for the ruling Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class that a new national order would soon supplant. These hugely successful quasi-stories, narrated by an epitome of British authority called the R.M. (Resident Magistrate: a justice of the peace), display an extraordinary capacity for joking in the face of disaster. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., remarked one bemused reviewer of the time, is a book "no self-respecting person could read in a railway-carriage with any regard to decorum."
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Release dateMar 13, 2012
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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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    While Andy Minter does a very good narration of this, especially with the Irish accents, I found that I had some difficulty focusing on his voice. When I read along in the Kindle book was when I appreciated the audiobook most. As the title suggests, this is really a series of anecdotes (mostly humorous). I enjoyed them but think that I liked the PBS/BBC TV series better.
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    Absolutely hilarious. The British judge, the RM for Royal Magistrate, arrives in rain, compelled to buy a horse from his savvy landlord who's already overcharging. The house is vast, with unexplored inner reaches--unexplored until various fugitives lodge there. Without fear of contradiction, the best fox hunt in all of literature, an Irish fox hunt with everyone participating, bicycles, carts, several horses of varied abilities and instincts regarding walls, ditches and fences.I do not know the current state of Irish reaction to this book, whether it is seen as baldly critical: humor always has that possibility of serious misapprehension. (Many readers of Confederacy of Dunces resent the book, though it is a modern classic.) But take it from me, with an Irish surname at least, Hilarious.

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