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Tables of Contents for Fool of the Family
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Prologue
xi
BOOK ONE Unfair Seedtime
The Former Lives of J. M. Synge
3
11
Fin-de-Siecle Beginnings
14
16
The Banality of Good
30
18
The Encumbered Present
48
15
Grey Stones and Plymouth Brethren
63
19
The Stay-at-Home Student
82
21
BOOK TWO The Wander Years
Escaping Home Rule in Germany (1893-4)
103
20
Dammerung; or Wicklow Revisited
123
12
French Leave (1896-1903)
135
25
`Give Me the Sun'
160
15
BOOK THREE Return of the Native
First Love?
175
18
Dreaming of Captain Dreyfus on Inis Meain
193
25
Travelling at Nightfall
218
13
A Month in the County: August 1901
231
8
The Year 1902 and the One-Act Plays
239
17
Too Many Impresarios
256
17
BOOK FOUR Contra Mundum
A Tragic Miracle, 1905
273
15
Enter Molly, Centre-Stage
288
18
Edwardian Winter, 1907
306
19
`Sorrow's Sauce for Every Kiss'
325
14
BOOK FIVE In the Green Room
Elpis, or Hope
339
26
Ulster Will Fight!
365
12
`All is Over. Huxley' (March 1909)
377
13
The Last Will and the Works of 1910
390
13
Perpetual Judgement, 1911-32
403
19
`A Likely Gaffer in the End of All'?
422
9
Appendix The Brethren: Origins and Beliefs With Some Notes on the Matheson Family
431
6
Notes
437
46
Acknowledgements
483
2
Index
485