Mathew Kearney, styled Lord Kilgobbin by his neighbours, keeps a crumbling castle on the edge of the Bog of Allen with his spirited daughter Kate and his niece Nina Kostalergi, a dazzling half-Greek beauty. When a young English official and her brother’s clever college friend arrive, a raid in search of arms sets off a story of courtship, politics and Irish nationalism in the 1860s.
Lever’s last novel, published in 1872, a shrewd and witty picture of Ireland in a time of agitation. Download the free EPUB.