The Untilled Field: Irish Stories of Priests, Exiles and Artists
George Moore
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Ireland in a dozen stories: a priest who drives a girl from the parish, an emigrant's letter, a stonecutter, a village where nothing will grow because everyone who could has gone. Moore was an Irish landlord's son who went to Paris to paint, failed, and came back with Zola's method; several of these 1903 stories first appeared in Irish translation, and it is the book that taught Joyce what a Dubliners might look like. Fifty-seven plates from Raeburn to Orpen track the Irish and European portrait across two centuries, the same faces and rooms Moore's priests, exiles and artists move through.
Ireland in a dozen stories: a priest who drives a girl from the parish, an emigrant's letter, a stonecutter, a village where nothing will grow because everyone who could has gone. Moore was an Irish landlord's son who went to Paris to paint, failed, and came back with Zola's method; several of th...
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George Moore (1852–1933) left an Irish estate for Paris to be a painter, failed, and came back to write the first English novels made on French principles. He quarrelled with the circulating libraries that would not stock him, and won.
George Moore (1852–1933) left an Irish estate for Paris to be a painter, failed, and came back to write the first English novels made on French principles. He quarrelled with the circulating libraries that would not stock him, and won.
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