Grania, the Story of an Island; Vol. 2/2
1892
A novel written in the late 19th century. The story follows the life of Grania O’Malley, a young woman navigating her existence in the unique social and environmental landscape of the Aran Isles, dealing with personal relationships and community struggles amidst the rugged beauty of her surroundings. The beginning of the book sets the stage with Grania's ongoing concerns about her stolen turf and the impact of difficult weather on her farming efforts. Grania is depicted as a strong and resilient character, managing both her household and the challenges of her island life, including her complex feelings for Murdough Blake, who has become increasingly unreliable due to his drinking. The narrative captures Grania's frustrations and desires for happiness against the backdrop of her duties, family responsibilities, and the stormy island setting, signaling deep emotional currents as she grapples with her aspirations and the societal norms that constrain her.
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“People as a rule were not happy, nor meant apparently to be happy, and the married state especially stood before her mind as a state of natural and inevitable discomfort - one in which there was always a more or less troublesome and unmanageable male to be fed, looked after, and put up with generally. That it possessed any counterbalancing advantages; that it could, even at the start, be, for a woman, a state of especial happiness, she simply did not, for a moment, believe . . . Her own private opinion was that all that was an invention got up by the men. They persuaded the women to believe there was something pleasant in it, and the silly creatures were fools enough to believe them.””
— Emily Lawless
“Already, even while the priest stood beside her, while the prayers she had so longed for, those prayers which Grania had died to obtain for her, were being uttered, she was drifting across its borderland; already its sounds rather than his voice, rather than any earthly voices, were in her ears; already her foot was upon its threshold. And upon that threshold, perhaps - who knows? - who can tell? - they met.””
— Emily Lawless
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