IRISH FISHERMEN
THE NORWAYMAN, by Joseph O’Connor; Faber and Faber. English price, 10/6. HIS is a romantic tale of the poor fisher-folk of the Atlantic Coast who pass their primitive lives in an idyll of hard work, hard drinking, hard lovemaking, and the unaffected intellectual pleasures of children. A sailor is shipwrecked on the island home ‘of the newly-wed Macks, and the stage is set for a picture of Irish village life that has the ring of truth about it. The author has pathos, charm, humour, and vitality, but he was stuck this time for a good ending. A weakness for whimsy and for writing down to his readers may not lessen his .work’s popularity, but they certainly lower its artistic pre-
tensions.
P.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 15
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125IRISH FISHERMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 15
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