The Macdermots of Ballycloran

The Macdermots of Ballycloran

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author = Anthony Trollope
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Kessinger Publishing LLC
release_date = 1847
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
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isbn = 9780548280188
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"The Macdermots of Ballycloran" is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847. The novel was "an abysmal failure with the reading public."Sutherland, John (1989). "The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction", p. 393. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804718423.]

The novel was written while Trollope was staying in the village of Drumsna, County Leitrim, Ireland. [cite web | title=Welcome to Drumsna | work=GoIreland | url=http://www.goireland.com/leitrim/drumsna.htm | accessdate=2008-06-25]

Plot summary

The narrative of "The Macdermots of Ballycloran" "chronicles the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage (enforced by his enemy, the vulgar builder Joe Flannelly) he cannot keep up. Enmity between the Macdermot and Flannelly families is sharpened by Larry's having declined to marry Joe's daughter, Sally. Macdermot's daughter, Feemy, is herself seduced by the locally hated English police officer, Captain Myles Ussher. Ussher, who enforces the excise laws against poteen distilling, is murdered by Feemy's brother, Thady. He is hanged, his father Larry goes mad, Feemy dies bearing Ussher's bastard and the Ballycloran house is finally vacated of Macdermots."

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* [http://www.anthonytrollope.com/books/works/macdermots_of_ballycloran_the_/ Plot summary and notes]


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