Banished by his father, an English earl, to the family’s Irish estate, the dissipated young Horatio expects only bogs and barbarism. Instead he finds the ruined castle of the old Prince of Inismore and his daughter Glorvina, harpist and scholar of Gaelic lore, and in letters home he falls in love with both her and Ireland.
The 1806 “national tale” that made Sydney Owenson famous and helped shape the romantic image of Ireland. Download the free EPUB.