Word: fermanagh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Dunsany's generosity than it does for his literary judgment. Of his own writing, Lord Dunsany once said that it dealt with "the mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins." Bridie Steen deals with a more recognizable geography (the scene is the Irish border county of Fermanagh), but it is a land where sentiment is surrounded by sentimentality...
Bridie was the child of a Protestant father and a Catholic serving-girl mother. In border County Fermanagh, that was enough to brand her. When Bridie was orphaned, she was disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired...
...paunchy, substantial ghost walked in the House of Commons last week. Another, not so large but equally substantial, flitted about the entrance. Fermanagh and Tyrone's two M.P.s, Anthony J. Mulvey and Patrick Cunningham, had come to take their seats at last...