The ‘poor scholar’ in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing

By Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey When Benedict Kiely published his biography of the Tyrone-born novelist and short-story writer William Carleton, he called it Poor scholar (1947). The title was apt and, in line with the book’s subtitle, ‘A study of the works and days of William Carleton’, powerfully evocative of the hedge school ... Read more