This scholarly edition, the first for twenty-five years, brings Emily Lawless's extraordinary novel to a new audience. Algernon Swinburne described Grania as "one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language" and Mrs Humphry Ward praised its "breath of sensitive humanity".
Using a unique poetic style, the author conveys both humour and a sense of Gaelic identity, inextricably linked with this remarkable community. Through complex and skilled characterisation, Lawless evokes a vivid picture of island life, with its unforgiving landscape and grinding poverty.
Set on the second largest of the three Aran Islands, Inishmaan, it follows the. Set on the second largest of the three Aran Islands, Inishmaan, it follows the life of the eponymous Grania from her childhood to early womanhood. When she realises her wants her only for her money and property, Grania rejects him in favour of heroism, although with tragic consequences. First published in 1889, Grania is a novel by Irish author Emily Lawless. First published in 1889, Grania is a novel by Irish author Emily Lawless. Grania O'Malley's life is circumscribed by family duty and her destiny as wife to her feckless fiancé, Murdough Blake. First published in 1892, Grania is the story of a fisherman's daughter from the Islands of Aran, off the coast of Galway. We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available.
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