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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross
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This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of Ireland in about 1895. The tales tell in a humorous way of his struggles with a new job, new culture, and with his landlord and neighbor Mr. ‘Flurry’ Knox whose prime, if not only, interest is in hunting, which forms the background to all the stories.
This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of Ireland in about 1895. The tales tell in a humorous way of his struggles with a new job, new culture, and with his landlord and neighbor Mr. ‘Flurry’ Knox whose prime, if not only, interest is in hunting, which forms the background to all the stories.
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Dinner was as incongruous as everything else. Detestable soup in a splendid old silver tureen that was nearly as dark in hue as Robinson Crusoe's thumb; a perfect salmon, perfectly cooked, on a chipped kitchen dish; such cut glass as is not easy to find nowadays; sherry that, as Flurry subsequently remarked, would burn the shell off an egg; and a bottle of port, draped in immemorial cobwebs, wan with age, and probably priceless. Throughout the vicissitudes of the meal Mrs. Knox's conversation flowed on undismayed, directed sometimes at me—she had installed me in the position of friend of her youth, and talked to me as if I were my own grandfather—sometimes at Crusoe, with whom she had several heated arg. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is about the most agreeable, humorous novel from this time period, now considered a classic, you're likely to find.
Major Sinclair Yeates has the detached, slightly jaded air that makes the "fish out of water" (maybe not out of water - more like fish in slightly bracken water when he's a fresh w
I was driven to this by the television series, but the stories of the stolid Englishman, his devoted wife, and his madcap Irish friends are even more delightful, though one must imagine the Irish scenery.
I sighed with pleasure as I turned the pages, but I can well understand how some will be underwhelmed. It is not necessary to be au fait with every nuance of Irishness to enjoy this, but the Irish obsession with horses and foxhunting is a central concern, and those without any knowledge or interest
Written at the turn of the last century, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. is a curious thing. The authors were cousins, women of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy who nevertheless write from the point of view of the eponymous (male) Resident Magistrate. There’s a bit of “Upstairs/Downstairs” ab