The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope
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During the first two months of the year 1844, the greatest possible excitement existed in Dublin respecting the State Trials, in which Mr O'Connell, his son, the Editors of three different repeal newspapers, Tom Steele, the Rev. Mr Tierney—a priest who had taken a somewhat prominent part in the Repeal Movement—and Mr Ray, the Secretary to the Repeal Association, were indicted for conspiracy. Those who only read of the proceedings in papers, which gave them as a mere portion of the news of the day, or learned what was going on in Dublin by chance conversation, can have no idea of the absorbing interest which the whole affair created in Ireland, but more especially in the metropolis. Every one felt strongly, on one side or on the other. Every one had brought the matter home to his own bosom, and looked to the result of the trial with individual interest and suspense.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope- Published on: 2015-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .36" w x 8.50" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 158 pages
About the Author Anthony Trollope was a Victorian-era English author best known for his satirical novel The Way We Live Now, a criticism of the greed and immorality he witnessed living in London. Trollope was employed as a postal surveyor in Ireland when he began to take up writing as a serious pursuit, publishing four novels on Irish subjects during his years there. In 1851 Trollope was travelling the English countryside for work when was inspired with the plot for The Warden, the first of six novels in what would become his famous The Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Trollope eventually settled in London and over the next thirty years published a prodigious body of work, including Barsetshire novels such as Barchester Towers and Doctor Thorne, as well as numerous other novels and short stories. Trollope died in London 1882 at the age of 67.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A great book for Trollope lovers By J. Smiley Anthony Trollope wrote this book in Ireland, when he was working there for the English Post Office. It was his second book, and it shows that he knew how to write a social comedy from the beginning. The characters are beautifully drawn, and the dilemmas are, of course, utterly mundane and utterly dramatic. A piece of property goes to a plain but decent woman, which raises her value in the marriage market.Her brother resents her. Will he become violent, or is he just a hapless drunk? Another man, who has a large property, puts it in jeopardy by owning race horses--but his trainer is the wisest man he knows (which doesn't mean his horses always win). This is a jewel, written in Trollope's characteristic smooth but pointed style. No one in England was interested in the Irish when it came out (1848), and it sold about fifty copies. It has always been outshone by his later works. I believe he was thirty-two when he wrote it. But it is wise, entertaining and full of those sort of moral riddles we love Trollope for exploring.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Repeal By H. Schneider Written and published in 1848, when Trollope worked for the Postal Service in Ireland, set during the time of the Irish State Trials of 1844,when Irish politicians wanted to repeal the annexation of Ireland by Great Britain and were accused of treason.The story involves 2 Irish families with a structurally similar situation: the young man in each wants to marry a richer woman. The details are different though.Young farmer Martin Kelly intends to marry an older woman with some money, but there are difficulties about that money. She needs to fend off her brother's attacks on her prosperity. She is Anty Lynch and as positive a character as you can find in this novel. Her brother Barry is as dark a villain as you can find in any Trollope. (Anty's goodness and simplicity is rather trying for the cynical reader. Ie me.)The O'Kellys belong to the Irish peerage. They own land without great value. The current standing of the family is mediocre. A dishonest administrator has done much damage to the property. The family has been stuck in legal action about lease disputes. Now the young viscount has to live on a fairly meager income. He is engaged to a young lady with her own means, but the young man's life style choices endanger the engagement. He is too much involved with horses and races and gambling, which his income can't sustain.Young Kelly's betrothed Anty happens to be the daughter of the man Lynch who cheated the O'Kellys, so her money is stolen from them.Enough of the plot. AT's commercial successes would come later. This is a bit of a practice session.He does look down upon the Irish, but his condescension is bearable to me, a non Irish. He is the type of the good colonialist. (In case that you question my observation about AT's condescending attitude: just look at how he describes life in widow Kelly's inn or in lawyer Daly's law practice. Poking good natured fun at the natives, poor children.)Looking for weaknesses in the novel, it occurs to me that neither of the two good young men, Martin Kelly and Frank O'Kelly, is really convincing. They are both contradictory characters, which is normal, but Trollope spends far too much effort in explaining them.I could also have done with less space given to the horses. After all, they like me as little as I like them...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Which is the principal motivation: love or money? By R. M. Peterson Ireland in 1844, just before the Great Famine. The Kellys are a middle-class family living in County Mayo. Mary Kelly is a widow, who runs a country inn; Martin Kelly is her hard-working son, a tenant farmer. Francis John Mountmorris O'Kelly is Martin's landlord. He also is Lord Ballandine, a peer whose family's holdings have shrunk to what is at best modest. THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS is the story of Martin Kelly's and Lord Ballandine's separate courtships of women who have more than enough money to make their suitor's life considerably more comfortable. Both Martin and Ballandine must wrestle with whether he is pursuing trothplight more out of love or more for the money. Another parallel: a repugnant male is determined to prevent each match. In Ballandine's case, the obstacle is his sweetheart's guardian, who wants instead to marry her to his spendthrift son so her fortune can be used to pay off his debts, while with Martin the impediment is his intended's brother (as vile a character as there is in Victorian fiction), who so desires her property for himself that he tries to have her murdered before she can be married.The novel provides a good picture of rural Irish society, mid-nineteenth century. While it opens with the trial of Daniel O'Connell and other "repealers" for conspiracy, political unrest never drives the action but instead furnishes part of the backdrop. There is plenty involving the law and lawyers, including a mordant scene of a lawyer "shaping" the testimony of his prospective witnesses. Religion and clergy also are present, including occasional friction between the Catholics and the Protestants; the hero of the novel turns out to be an unprepossessing parson with a congregation that can be counted on the fingers of two hands (when he wants to make a good impression on a visiting Anglican notable, he asks some Catholic friends in the neighborhood to come and help fill the pews, which they do). There is a foxhunt scene, something that came to be a trademark of Trollope's, as well as some behind-the-scenes machinations relating to the training and running of thoroughbreds. But most prominent is the impulse to marry for financial gain or security and the scheming and rationalizations associated with it.THE KELLYS AND O'KELLYS was Trollope's second novel. It was the first in which he intertwined the telling of two tales. By and large he handles it ably. Although the novel is slightly repetitive at times and Trollope a little windy, the prose simply flows, already in full Trollopean spate. There are some memorable characters, although there is little in the way of character development and what there is can be clumsy. There is comedy and there is moderately biting social satire. At the end of the novel, Trollope wraps up his two tales and various loose ends (though not all of them) in awkwardly hasty fashion, as if he suddenly had tired of writing the novel. There is much to like and enjoy in THE KELLYS AND O'KELLYS, but the execution is a little ragged, it is rather on the light side, and I doubt that it is among Trollope's finest.
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