G R A N I A

VOL. I.

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GRANIA

THE STORY OF AN ISLAND

BY THE

HON. EMILY LAWLESS

AUTHOR OF ‘HURRISH, A STUDY’
ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES


VOL. I.


LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1892

[All rights reserved]

DEDICATION

To M. C.

This story was always intended to be dedicated to you. It could hardly,in fact, have been dedicated to anyone else, seeing that it was with youit was originally planned; you who helped out its meagre scraps ofGaelic; you with whom was first discussed the possibility of an Irishstory without any Irish brogue in it—that brogue which is a tiresomenecessity always, and might surely be dispensed with, as we both agreed,in a case where no single actor on the tiny stage is supposed to utter aword of English. For the rest, they are but melancholy places, theseAran Isles of ours, as you and I know well, and the following pages havecaught their full share—something, perhaps, more than their fullshare—of that gloom. That this is an artistic fault no one can doubt,yet there are times—are there not?—when it does not seem so very easyto exaggerate the amount of gloom which life is any day and every dayquite willing to bestow.

Several causes have delayed the little book’s appearance until now, buthere it is, ready at last, and dedicated still to you.

E. L.

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