Project Gutenberg 2025-04-08 Public domain in the USA. 212 Barlow, Jane 1856 1917 Barlow, J. (Jane) Ryark, Felix Henry, Paul 1876 1958 By beach and bog-land : $b Some Irish stories $aLondon :$bT. Fisher Unwin, $c1905. the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "By Beach and Bog-land: Some Irish Stories" by Jane Barlow is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on rural Irish life, exploring the daily hardships, joys, and superstitions of communities set amid bogs, beaches, and small villages. The stories seem to center around ordinary people—farmers, widows, soldiers, and families—depicting their struggles with poverty, loss, longing, and resilience within the context of Irish culture. With sympathetic portrayals and vivid local color, the collection likely appeals to readers interested in Irish social history, folklore, or character-driven storytelling. The opening of the book introduces readers to the remote village of Clonmalroan, where isolation heightens the impact of world events, such as war, on the local residents. The first story centers on Lady Winifred, who is left alone in the "Big House" after her husband, a captain, is called away to war, and on Widow Connor, whose son Terry also serves as a soldier. The narrative explores their shared anxieties as they await news, painting a poignant picture of fear, waiting, and community during troubled times. Through nuanced scenes—like Lady Winifred’s anxious watch for a letter, the villagers' desperate attempts to read war reports, and the superstitions that arise amid loss—the opening establishes a deeply human and atmospheric portrait of Irish rural life affected by distant, life-changing events. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/cu31924013210947/page/n9/mode/2up 20230923063549barlow 1905 GB Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Ireland -- Fiction Peasants -- Ireland -- Fiction Short stories, English -- Irish authors PR Text Category: Short Stories 512206 2025-07-30T05:23:01.617298 text/html 489826 2025-04-10T23:16:52 text/html 862074 2025-07-30T05:23:09.193262 application/epub+zip 858427 2025-07-30T05:23:03.093282 application/epub+zip 348271 2025-07-30T05:23:02.371289 application/epub+zip 940979 2025-07-30T05:23:13.980213 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 905073 2025-07-30T05:23:08.583265 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 474953 2025-07-30T05:23:00.906280 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 455052 2025-04-10T23:16:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16984 2025-07-30T05:23:14.137221 application/rdf+xml 11464 2025-07-30T05:23:02.588300 image/jpeg 2586 2025-07-30T05:23:02.476367 image/jpeg 1230140 2025-07-30T05:23:01.686331 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia