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...last year's Hunt, students removed as muchclothing as they considered advisable and paintedblue designs on one another's skin in the style ofthe ancient Picts...
With The End of the Hunt (Dutton; 627 pages; $24.95), a novel that sifts the moral and political wreckage left by the Irish civil war of 1921, Thomas Flanagan brings to a rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising...
...French deals with an incident in 1798, and Tenants begins with uprisings in the 1860s; the foreknowledge of history merely colors these works with an agreeable wash of irony. The End of the Hunt seems more tragic because the political failures it describes lead directly to the recent bloody decades, when the balladmakers have given up but the bombers are still at work...
...claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly. All this makes the author's concluding study of Irish history a fine, smoldering narrative, even if he can't provide an end to the hunt...
...officers' hunt begins in earnest at 9:30, after a stop for a bran muffin and coffee. "We always give 'em a little play," says DiAngelo. "But if they're an hour and a half late, they're fair game." Cruising along East 182nd Street, the officers describe the finer points of pursuit. Traditionally, says DiAngelo, truants were predominantly boys, "but girls are cutting more now." Girls, Officer Krajeski says, "are always 'sick' or 'late.' They don't run as much. Solos never run; groups usually...