Project Gutenberg 2025-07-06 Public domain in the USA. 192 Shiels, George 1886 1949 33010721 Professor Tim & Paul Twyning : $b Comedies in three acts Professor Tim and Paul Twyning $aLondon :$bMacmillan & Co. Ltd., $c1927. Chris Hapka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Professor Tim & Paul Twyning : Comedies in three acts" by George Shiels is a collection of stage comedies written in the early 20th century. It centers on rural Irish life, where pride, money, marriage, and local status collide with affection and common sense. The principal comedy follows down-on-his-luck horseman Hugh O’Cahan, practical Peggy Scally, her domineering mother, ambitious councillor James Kilroy, and Peggy’s shambolic but oddly gifted uncle, the so-called “Professor Tim,” a water-diviner. Expect lively banter, social satire, and farcical turns around an auction, a courtship, and a family’s hunger for respectability. The opening of this collection introduces the Scally kitchen on the morning of Hugh O’Cahan’s auction: Peggy tries to end their romance by returning his costly gifts, while Mrs. Scally maneuvers to match Peggy with Joseph Kilroy, whose father plans to buy Hugh’s farm, Rush Hill. Into this walks “Professor Tim,” Briget Scally’s long-absent brother, a shabby, snuff-scented wanderer whom Briget tries to eject, though Peggy quietly shows him kindness. Act II shifts to Rush Hill, where housekeeper Moll Flanagan and groom Paddy Kinney brace for the sale; Paddy secretly dresses up to run up the bidding, while Peggy asks Hugh to call that evening and pockets the returned jewelry as a stake. The Professor divines springs under the house, then drifts to the auction as the rain forces the small, boycotted crowd indoors. When bidding begins, Paddy’s disguise goads Kilroy higher, tempers flare between Kilroy and Hugh, and the price climbs toward the bank’s reserve as the scene cuts off mid-sale. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000120903 20240901113014shiels 1927 GB Reading ease score: 96.7 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Comedy plays English drama -- Irish authors PR Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: British Literature 523745 2025-07-30T08:12:49.128405 text/html 498394 2025-07-06T08:44:45 text/html 410904 2025-07-30T08:13:01.076368 application/epub+zip 409289 2025-07-30T08:12:51.646379 application/epub+zip 233696 2025-07-30T08:12:50.180366 application/epub+zip 782446 2025-07-30T08:13:06.491260 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 701519 2025-07-30T08:12:59.918404 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278135 2025-07-30T08:12:46.551379 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 258208 2025-07-06T08:44:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14135 2025-07-30T08:13:06.670260 application/rdf+xml 21996 2025-07-30T08:12:50.575327 image/jpeg 3629 2025-07-30T08:12:50.403340 image/jpeg 664977 2025-07-30T08:12:49.171365 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