Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
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Shute, and sometimes with apprehension and prayers, as in the case of Major Yeates. But they do all ride, and the presence of horses Who knew I had this much to learn about horses and hunting? But they do all ride, and the presence of horses is woven deeply into the text. I'm not sure I've learned anything concrete, but I have some understanding of hunting and horses that I didn't before.
On top of their tutelage in equine matters, these are charming stories, though they are definitely stories and not a novel. I rather wish they were a novel; each story is lovely while it lasts, but I want a longer story arc. Jul 04, Maryann rated it liked it Shelves: Major Yeates tells tales of his life in the Irish countryside, mostly consisting of hunts and adventures with horses, feuds between family members, and a little bit of drinking.
Easy to read, but not always easy to understand because of the age of the language, this is a window into late 19th century Irish country life.
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A nice little snack before supper. Mar 14, Marie rated it did not like it Shelves: I just couldn't keep reading this. I put it away once, then decided to give it another go, but alas, I still don't like it at all. It tells the stories of a bygone age, it's also useful for learning the manner in which things were regarded in that age.
Dec 31, A. Mary rated it liked it Shelves: The prose takes some adjustment if the reader has been on a steady diet of more recent fiction or non-fiction, but it is worth shifting gears. Set in 19th-century Ireland, among the privileged Anglo-Irish ascendancy, the book is what its title proclaims, so it reads like a sequence of stories sharing a cast of characters.
The author cousins, Somerville and Ross, probably laughed themselves silly when they read excerpts aloud to each other. The humour is very droll and I laughed aloud, especially The prose takes some adjustment if the reader has been on a steady diet of more recent fiction or non-fiction, but it is worth shifting gears. The humour is very droll and I laughed aloud, especially when the descriptions were thorough enough to have some momentum.
The magistrate of the title rarely ever hears a case, spending a lot of his time fox hunting and engaging in other social activities as the privileged were wont to do. Major Yeates, the R. It's all very pleasurable reading, and the second book--Further Experiences of an Irish R. Altogether a refreshing palate cleanser, intelligently written, after a long list of heavy subjects.
Although I found several of the stories funny and clever, there were too many parts of the book that just seemed very tedious for me to give it more than 3 stars. I felt the author got caught up "over-explaining" things that really hindered the flow of the book. Jan 03, Kristel rated it really liked it Shelves: This tale was published in and is a series of comic tales of Anglo-Irish life dealing with hunting, shooting, horse riding and some drinking.
The servants and publicans play minor roles and it is mostly about the elite of society with only a faint hint of struggles of the working class against the landlord class and Irish self government. The lady authors were of the elite class and the story is limited by their vision. Major Sinclair Yeates becomes the resident magistrate of Skebawn.
He is This tale was published in and is a series of comic tales of Anglo-Irish life dealing with hunting, shooting, horse riding and some drinking. The scenes are of rural Ireland and West Cork and is pleasantly depicted as green fields, bogs, rivers and coastland. There are many outdoor scenes. The stories are lots of fun. Apr 03, Timothy Ferguson rated it it was ok. This is one of those books in which an outsider enters a community of interesting eccentrics, and is fleeced, than embraced. Recommended for those people who understand why the characters could find foxhunting interesting enough to write many, many chapters about it.
I listened to the Librivox edition. Review originally posted This is one of those books in which an outsider enters a community of interesting eccentrics, and is fleeced, than embraced. Review originally posted on book coasters Dec 07, Deon Stonehouse rated it it was amazing Shelves: Life changes for the hapless Yeates with ferocious speed.
One day he is a Major in a normal regiment, the next he is being awakened at 3: Wickedly funny, reading this one is a lark! Feb 22, Alex rated it did not like it Shelves: This book is a comedy which no longer amuses. Since it has entertained generations of readers, I can only blame myself. The prose is demonstrably funny no doubt, if one understands the detailed descriptions of a hunt never having been on a horse I rode a steed of incomprehension. Reading the satires on the cultural, social and political environment, I imagine myself an Indian farmer in the Madras presidency circa trying to appreciate Vonnegut.
May 13, Francisco rated it liked it. It is quite well written in that "quite amusing" fashion of landed gentry. It seems to have dated badly, however, in its obsession with having animals be killed or mangled, a lot of fox-hunting, birds dying, horses getting injured, and all of it made for laughs. The way the poor are portrayed is also patronizing and again for laughs. Well written, but laughs at the wrong things, really.
Sep 25, Janis rated it really liked it Shelves: What a rollicking lively account I enjoyed this so much, I ordered and received the background historical information, biographical info about Someville and Ross, and a further book on the Irish R. Jul 07, Linda rated it it was ok Shelves: One would think this book would be just my cup of tea.
Sadly, there was too much animal sadness-- pervasive animal sadness, in fact-- for that to be the case. For what it's worth, I didn't care for the tv series based on this book, either. Full disclosure-- I didn't finish. Feb 28, Z rated it liked it Shelves: Some clever and even funny bits, but my lack of knowledge of the culture and perhaps the audiobook format made the book more of a challenge. On the other hand, the excellent narrator also filled out parts that would have passed me by otherwise. Clearly, it was well written and a pleasant read, though I wasn't always able to follow.
May 04, Philip Lane rated it liked it. A selection of memoirs from the life of a magistrate in Ireland in the 19th century. I was very disappointed because I was expecting some sort of insight into the legal system at the time but it turned out to be mostly about hunting and sailing and how the establishment entertained themselves.
I listened to the Librivox edition. The design of the course preserved the large number of mature trees, and in addition the house's date stone and a number of other items are on display. I loved the BBC series and this was a pleasant reminder. The author cousins, Somerville and Ross, probably laughed themselves silly when they read excerpts aloud to each other. The house is vast, with unexplored inner reaches--unexplore Absolutely hilarious. These delightful stories of an Anglo-Irish magistrate take place near the end of the 19th century in the southwest of Ireland.
I don't feel as though I got any new insights. Jan 10, Highlandtown rated it it was amazing Shelves: Absolutely love this book. Fantastic characters with women and horses at the center of it all. A fun set of humorous anecdotes. Andy Minter has done a great narration and his Irish accents added to the enjoyment. Sep 21, Lori rated it liked it Shelves: For the most part this is an amusing story. The antics of one of the main characters are quite funny. Those Irishmen sure can drink! Some of the stories in the middle dragged I set this book aside for a while but the characters are very entertaining.
The dialect writing gave me trouble at times; reading those bits aloud helped! I loved the BBC series and this was a pleasant reminder.
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross and E. Oe. Somerville. No cover available. Download; Bibrec. The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Longmans, Green & Co., London, ); Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. (Longmans Green & Co.
Short stories to be spread out - too many at once would be too much; they are quite similar. I got the next two books free lined up. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Together they published a series of fourteen stories and novels, the most popular of which were The Real Charlotte, and The Experiences of an Irish R. Somerville was born on Corfu, where her father was stationed, the eldest of eight children.
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She received her primary education at home, and then at Alexandra College in Dublin. At home riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year. Their first book, An Irish Cousin, appeared in In Edith Somerville went to paint at the Etaples art colony, accompanied by Violet and they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories gathered in Some Experiences of an Irish R.
By the time Violet died in they had published fourteen books together. She was in London still recovering from the shock when the Insurrection broke out.
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On 9 May she wrote a letter to the Times, blaming the British Government for the state of affairs in Ireland. She tended towards Nationalism afterwards and, an adept musician, at parties specialized in Irish tunes and Nationalist songs. They are set in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century west of Ireland. All three books are out of copyright and can be found on the Internet Archive.
The various stories concern the life of an Irish ex- British Army officer resident magistrate R. Like the books, the television series is a number of short stories around a few central characters. Morristown Lattin , the house used as Aussolas Castle, the residence of Beryl Reid's incarnation of the erstwhile Mrs Knox located at Newhall, Naas in County Kildare , was badly damaged by fire following completion of filming for the series.
It has since been repaired. The extensive outbuildings were transformed into shops and pubs for some of the village scenes. The house was demolished soon after the third series was completed and a golf course now stands on the site. The design of the course preserved the large number of mature trees, and in addition the house's date stone and a number of other items are on display.
For the second and third series, many of the Skebawn village scenes were filmed in Robertstown. In the television adaptation, Major Yeates Peter Bowles is portrayed as an Englishman, and much of the humour of the first series derives from his difficulty in adjusting to the more relaxed class boundaries and slower pace of life of rural Ireland.
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The timeline of the television series begins in , when the Major departs for Ireland, and ends shortly after the death of Edward VII. Anna Manahan played the redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs Cadogan. Political references are, however, not completely absent; where they occur, they are invariably introduced in a subtle manner by guest characters. In every case, the comfortable, if somewhat adversarial, co-existence of the Major and the local population is at risk. One element of the series' humour involves the efforts of Flurry and the Major to hasten the departure of these troublesome visitors.
One of the show's key strengths lies in its ability to convey the extent to which the lives of the Anglo-Irish gentry and the simple, if rather stilted local characters, often became inadvertently intertwined to produce the memorable comic effects that are so unique to the Irish psyche. Slipper ventures to say that 'The English and the Irish understand each other like the fox and the hound,' to which the lady replies in good humour, 'But which is which?
At a regimental ball in , Major Sinclair Yeates reveals his plan to resign his commission to become a resident magistrate. Yeates and his cousin Basil fear that their careers are ruined when they are caught in a police raid at the Brickleys'. An exhausting night of dancing and dousing fires ends with a carefully planned surprise by Sally and Flurry.
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross and E. Oe. Somerville
Flurry returns to his old, deceitful ways after returning from a Paris honeymoon with his new bride Sally, and does his utmost to sell a horse to General Porteous. But as usual, things do not quite go smoothly. After convincing Major Yeates to join him on a hunting expedition, the Major suffers an unlucky accident, thanks in no small part to Flurry's treachery. Of course, this is all part of Flurry's plan. The tension between the Foleys and the Callaghans continues to escalate. On the eve of the annual race competition, the Callaghans accuse the Foleys of being salmon poachers, bringing in the police to investigate.
Flurry's unsavoury friend Dr. Hickey convinces Major Yeates to break into the butcher shop. The two are caught in the act.