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Re:An Irish novel that became a sensation in the USSR by kgwgk on Friday January 27, 2017 @03:19PM (#13502285)
How is this relevant? It seems she was born in Cork to non-Irish parents and returned to England when she was a child. Did she keep a connection to the Irish community? Had her husband any other connection to Ireland?
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Re:An Irish novel that became a sensation in the USSR by theoh on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:40PM (#13503783)
It's spurious to attribute it to Irishness. More to do with Eminent Victorians than any fantasy of Ireland as a distributed global village.
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