John McCourt

Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland

Introduction: Anthony Trollope Between Britain And Ireland Questions Of Justice In The Early Irish Novels Trollope And The Famine A Question Of Character - The Many Lives Of Phineas Finn Gentleman Priests And Rebellious Curates: Trollopes Irish Catholic Clergy Problems Of Form: The Irish Short Stories Trollopes Irish English Countering Rebellion Conclusion: Irish Letters

Charles Lever: An Irish Writer in Italy

Victorian Irish novelist Charles Lever spent much of his adult life living in Italy and in the partly Italian city of Trieste, serving as British Vice-Consul in La Spezia and later as Consul in Trieste. He used his experience and knowledge of Italy as the source for many articles and as raw material for the Italian sections of his novels. He is one of the most acute observers of Italian life at the time of the unification of Italy but his experience in il bel paese also played a key role in forming his views about the Ireland that continued to be the central interest of his fiction.